From left are a winter melon, jujubes, luffa squash, Asian pears and Chinese long beans, all grown at Gene Peng's orchard southwest of Lawrence. It’s a busy season at Jujube Orchard, where Gene Peng ...

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- A sweet, football-shaped fruit called jujube is gaining traction in the Central Valley and beyond. Fresno farmer Lam Truong grows over 9,500 Honey Jujube trees across ...

The complete, high quality sequencing of the jujube genome has been announced by researchers. Jujube is the most economically important member of the Rhamnaceae family, and the jujube genome is ...

The original jujube -- the real jujube -- is a fruit, not a candy. The fruit is hardly known in America, but the Chinese have been growing and eating jujubes for more than 4,000 years. Jujube plants ...

SUNNY YEUNG, team manager for the undefeated Blue Blazers under-8 soccer squad, was handing out shiny, mahogany red treats during pregame warmups. “Have a date, Coach,” she said to me. “They’re from ...

Last week I wrote about the Japanese raisin tree, a plant few Americans are familiar with, but a fruit tree worth cultivating in Florida. Also worthy of space in our landscapes is the jujube, a ...

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the dry jujube. They identified the genomic region that underlies the sugar and acid content of the fruits -- a key factor in jujube domestication -- as well ...

Let’s get one thing straight: The fruit from the jujube tree has nothing in common with the corn-starch confectionary of the same name. You won’t lose a filling while chewing on a jujube right off the ...