junjube and gray jujube difference mainly from the following three aspects:

1, size: jujube head big, generally speaking, claiming that the size of the egg, that is the jujube; gray jujube head is small, the largest but 3~4 cm.

2, fruit type: jujube pear-shaped, different sizes at both ends, the surface wrinkles shallow, fluffy, hand pinch there is a clear sense of collapse; gray jujube cylindrical long strip, the surface wrinkles more and deep, dense flesh.

3, taste sweetness: rakiang gray jujube sweetest, jujube nucleus flat long thin small; Junjube soft sour, rakiang gray jujube and other areas of gray jujube compared to the skin to be thinner, meat is more sweet, like biting chocolate, there are obvious teeth marks, meat has a kind of porcelain feeling.

Junjube morphological characteristics

The trunk and old branches are generally light gray or dark gray, lamellar or cracked, the date head of the primary branch, the secondary branch green when young, smooth and glabrous, yellow-brown or purple-brown after maturity, each section has a buttress bundle. Long branches without prickles; young branches without stipular spines. Jujube hanging green, slender and soft, falling off after the leaves fall, on which the stipular spines are tiny and soft, soon after the leaves unfold. Leaves papery, alternate, green, arranged in two rows, 3-9 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, ovate-elliptic.