@Bhawkins, @jujubemulberry, @castanea
My cousin bought this jujube tree from Doan’ nursery in TX about 16 years ago. I bark grafted a branch about 5 yrs ago and now it has lots of fruits. Not sure what it is.
Tony
Btw, Bob H. Here is the Autumn Beauty scion from your tree 4 years ago. Looking real good.
I’m not sure from the picture what it is. When I started going to Doans 10 years ago they only offered Li, Lang, & GA866. Doesnt look like GA866
Great! I hoped it is a GA -866 because of the real sweet flavor that everyone was talking about. I don’t think it is a LI or a Lang. My cousin said the fruits were super sweet.
Tony
It doesn’t look like GA866.
I found a photo of GA-866 from Castanea and they looked very close.
“GA 866 jujube, one of the sweetest. The fresh one in the middle was just perfect. The dried ones are among the better dried jujubes.”
Huh, I wonder what could it be? I will do a taste test in a few months plus the ripen photos of them and see how good they are.
Tony
I don’t think it’s any of those 3. Looks closer to Sherwood.
Doans was selling Sherwood in 2008, as mentioned 2/3 of the way down this page.
i agree, there’s a good chance it is sherwood. Are the laterals spiny @tonyOmahaz5 ? From what i could see, they are not, so that makes it more likely. And if it is sherwood, that’s good news since nebraska is not exactly a place to grow sherwoods
This is One Green World nursery description of “Sherwood Jujube is one of the larger jujube trees, growing up to 25 feet tall, but can easily be kept smaller with pruning. It features delicious bell-shaped fruit that averages an inch and a half in length as well as a more upright habit than most jujubes and far fewer thorns than any other variety. Performs very well in hot desert areas”
My tree does not have any thorns either. It could be a Sherwood.
Tony
Ha! Who are you going to believe, Mary Hawkins, or me? 
My GA866 looks very similar to the photos posted by @castanea … they have a bit of asymmetry near the base of the fruit. The source of my tree was LE Cooke.
I believe Sherwood has a unique semi-weeping growth habit. I have several varieties grafted onto a Sherwood (from Raintree) and the weeping habit appears very pronounced when viewing the different varieties side-by-side. It’s also a VERY late variety… I live in southern AZ zone 8 and it ripens in October, while all others ripen late August (Sugarcane and Honey Jar being the earliest) into September.
Does any of that info help the ID?
Its hard for me to identify jujubees in the green stage
i just picked these 5 Sherwoods this morning. I’ve had better looking Sherwoods other years, not sure whats happening this year; lots of rain in the past week, unusual here, is causing splitting, bloating etc
Here’s my GA866 picked this morning
My Sherwood trees do have the drooping look, I like it
Thank you all. Now I am not for sure what it is because the fruits are elongated and different from BH of ripened Sherwood photo. I will call Doan’ nursery and ask them what varieties that they stocked 16 yrs ago?
Tony
it must be the weather. Moreover, our ga-866’s have never produced pear-shaped fruits(admittedly though, have never really gotten them to fruit in large numbers), and have seen some hj’s, which if remember right were posted by @tonyOmahaz5 having girdled (or hour-glass profiles), which have never seen in our hj’s.
Last year my Sherwood’s looked more like the LE Cook flyer.
I have a few weird looking Shanxi Li’s Too, last year they looked like large Li’s
Most of my GA866’s have the funny body. If I rotate it it doesn’t show. It’s like a bulge on one side, very distinctive
If you call Doans Vietnamese is the best language to use! Or ask for Martin Doan his English is good
