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|genus = Ziziphus<br />
|species = nummularia<br />
|authority = (Burm.f.) Wight & Arn.<br />
|synonyms= ''Ziziphus rotundifolia''<br />
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'''''Ziziphus nummularia''''' is a species of ''[[Ziziphus]]'' native to the [[Thar Desert]] of western [[India]] and southeastern [[Pakistan]] and south [[Iran]].<br />
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''Ziziphus nummularia'' is a [[shrub]] up to {{convert|3|m|ft}} or more high, branching to form a thicket. The leaves are rounded like those of ''[[Jujube|Ziziphus jujuba]]'' but differ from these in having a pubescence on the adaxial surface. The plant is commonly found in agricultural fields. This species is native to parts of the [[Persian Gulf]], especially [[Qatar]], where it occurs in natural depressions.<br />
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==Uses==<br />
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===Food===<br />
The fruit is either eaten fresh, pickled, dried or made into confectionery. The juice can be made into a refreshing drink. In India, the fruit, when fully ripe and less than one centimeter in diameter, is gathered in the beginning of the winter months, dried, ground, and sieved. The powder formed is eaten either alone, or mixed with Gur (a sugar condiment) or Bajra (millet) flour. In Arabia, this fruit is known as “Kenar” and often eaten directly like an apple, especially among traditional households.{{cn|date=March 2021}}<br />
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===Fodder===<br />
The leaves of ''Z. nummularia'' provide excellent fodder for livestock. In India, the average total yield of forage was about 1000&nbsp;kg ha-1. The leaves are collected dried and stored.<br />
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===Fuel===<br />
It is a source of high calorific value (4400 kcal/kg) fuel and charcoal<br />
Timber: The heartwood is yellow to dark brown, hard, 738&nbsp;kg/m3 and it is used in farm implements and for house construction.<br />
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===Medicine===<br />
Dried fruit used medicinally as astringent in bilious affliction in India. The leaves are used to treat scabies and other skin diseases.<br />
Poison: The fruits are greedily eaten by gerbils and rats and are used as baits for poisoning these rodents.<br />
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===Intercropping===<br />
''Ziziphus nummularia'' shrubs are often [[intercropped]] with millet, legumes and oil seeds<br />
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===Erosion control===<br />
The shrubs have been shown to effectively check wind erosion, help in deposition of soil, and bring about a change in the microhabitat, causing favourable conditions for the appearance of successional species such asperennial grasses<br />
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===Boundary or barrier or support===<br />
In India, it is commonly erected as ‘brush-wood barriers’ (micro-windbreaks) together with Crotalaria burhia.<br />
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===Reclamation===<br />
It has proved successful in [[sand dune stabilization]] in India.<br />
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==Tree management==<br />
It produces copious coppice shoots and roots suckers forming dense thorny thickets often collecting moulds of leaves and dust.<br />
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==Germplasm management==<br />
Seed storage behaviour is orthodox. There are 1800-2000 seeds/Kg<br />
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==Pests and diseases==<br />
This species is a host of larvae of butterfly ''[[Tarucus balkanicus|Tarucus balkanica Freyer]]'' in Africa, Balkans, Iran, Asia Minor, Lebanon and Mauritania.{{cn|date=May 2021}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Flora of India (region)]]<br />
[[Category:Flora of Iran]]<br />
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