2, soft jujube scientific name Junqianzi (Diospyros lotus L.) persimmon family deciduous tree, up to 30 meters high, up to 1.3 meters in diameter at breast height; crown subglobose or oblate; bark gray-black or gray-brown; twigs brown or brown; shoots are usually light gray, sometimes with purple. Winter buds brownish. Leaves elliptic to long elliptic, dark green and glossy above, green or pinkish green and pilose below; petiole sometimes pubescent, grooved above. Male flowers axillary; calyx campanulate; corolla pot-shaped, reddish or yellowish. Fruit subglobose or ellipsoid, yellowish at first ripening, later turning blue-black, often with a thin white wax layer, 8-celled; seeds oblong, brown, laterally compressed. Flowering in May-June, fruiting in October-November.