Posted by kristi on 04 Feb 2025 in Photo Journals, Leaves, Stems and Branches, Flowers, Fruit
A Highly Compressed Fruiting Branchlet!
This little fellow never got the message to elongate!
Complete with active ant pollinators. I didn’t even notice them until processing this photo!
They are collecting the nectar from the nectary disc of the last remaining newly-opened flower - the bright yellow part.
The flowers are usually more spaced, as here:
Just while here, did you know that jujube trees are in the Rhamnaceae family, or buckthorn family? And yet, surprisingly for a family called the buckthorn family, the defining botanical characterisitc of Rhamnaceae species is not the thorns, but their unmistakeable flowers!
About the Author
Kristi Ellinopoullos
BSc(Hons), U.Syd. - double major in biochemistry and microbiology, with honours in microbiology
PhD, U.Syd - soil microbiology
Stumbled into IT and publishing of all things.
Discovered jujube trees and realised that perhaps I should have been an agronomist...
So I combined all the above passions and interests into this website and its blog and manuals, on which I write about botany, soil chemistry, soil microbiology and biochemistry - and yes, jujubes too!
BSc(Hons), U.Syd. - double major in biochemistry and microbiology, with honours in microbiology
PhD, U.Syd - soil microbiology
Stumbled into IT and publishing of all things.
Discovered jujube trees and realised that perhaps I should have been an agronomist...
So I combined all the above passions and interests into this website and its blog and manuals, on which I write about botany, soil chemistry, soil microbiology and biochemistry - and yes, jujubes too!
Please help me buy a plant if you found this article interesting or useful!