It comes from the most eastern areas of the Mediterranean and Asia. The yellow flowers originate small and dark red, edible fruit, both dry and fresh and formerly with them jam was made. When rubbed with water, from the sweet and pulpy top, a kind of lemonade rich in tannins, sugars and vitamin C is obtained, and it is widely used in the subtropical Africa and the Sahara.
In Seville, near the main commercial street there was, until recently a street called “azofaifo” (Eng. jujube). The name of this street recalled a specimen that behind an old wall, there loomed. It was one of the trees in the garden of the doctor Nicholas Monardes from Seville. A garden that was as beautiful as the forest that the soldiers like Pedro de Osma and monks like Toribio de Benavente saw in Mexico, Peru, the islands of the Maranhão and Florida, and where grew for the first time in Europe American species such as guava or tobacco.
However, not one but two paired jujubes appear in the Alcázar, which evoke another wished memory, this one collected in the Qur'an, where it relates paradise with a garden and hell with a desert. An Eden where there will be two species of every kind of fruit, like in a plant Ark, and where there will be the righteous, the partners of happiness among spineless jujubes between aligned acacias, extended shadows, water and abundant fruits that will not be cut or banned.