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[Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>]

I know all you zone 7 people would rather be discussing regular jujubes, but 
I'm wondering about something I found in my local Asian grocery. This was a 
bag of candied fruit labeled "Wild Sour Jujube." It tasted mostly like sugar, 
since it was candied, but it also had a nice jujube-like flavor, in a smaller 
fruit. I'm wondering if this is something like a crabapple compared to an 
apple, smaller, sourer, and maybe easier to grow.

Google isn't telling me much, except that it might be the same as Zizyphus 
spinosa, which according to this is hardy to zone 3:
http://www.richters.com/Web_store/web_store.cgi?product=X3518&show=&prodclass=C003&cart_id=8912984.32223
The seed is medicinal, used as a sedative. I don't need a sedative, I'd just 
like to grow an interesting fruit. No one says much about the fruit of this 
species, so I wonder if it's the same thing.

Melissa
zone 5