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 ...

A website bearing the title “Gardening Know How” refers to the jujube tree as an “exotic”, which is certainly true around Tehama County. We were introduced to this tree through Martin’s Garden, a ...

AmeriZao is the new trademarked name for jujube fruit trees tested by New Mexico State University’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. “Since these cultivars are originally ...

For an unusual twist on a popular fruit bush, you could consider a 'Pink Lemonade' blueberry. As the name suggests, this ...

Last week, we discussed the merits of the Juneberry, pawpaw and mulberry. Each of those unusual fruits offered a unique trait to the home gardener, as do the fruits we will discuss this week. Although ...

Just ate my day’s fill from one of the most sadly-overlooked landscape-quality fruit trees. Always amazed that everyone doesn’t grow it. To set this up, I was raised in an odd Delta garden, right ...

ITHACA, NY--The high quality genome sequence of the dry jujube, along with sequences from trees throughout its range, have illuminated the domestication history of this ancient fruit tree, which ...

Just ate my day’s fill from one of the most sadly overlooked landscape-quality fruit trees. Always amazed that everyone doesn’t grow it. To set this up, I was raised in an odd Delta garden, right ...

An intermediate court in central China has fined local governments millions of yuan after hundreds of ancient jujube trees — some up to 500 years old — died during an illegal transplant operation. In ...