Passport Origin and distribution: rare variety, it’s only present in Waddan and few in Hun Productive area in Al Jufrah Oasis: 0,1 % Mean Production in Al Jufrah Oasis: 60 Kg/tree Agronomic characteristics: reasonable offshoots capacity Flowering period: March Commercial maturity stage: Rutab and Tamar Harvest period: from August to September by selection of dates and removing of bunches Fruit and trade characteristics: trade and commercial value for daily consumption and when get to dry Tamar stage used for animal feed Quality
TREE Trunk shape Foliage shape Crown shape
cylindrical Bunch type erected - spherical Bunch density moderately dense - dense Bunch colour
oblique dense yellow-orange
FRUIT Shape Apex Base Color Skin appearance Alteration of skin colour Fruit texture Perianth Flesh texture
sub-cylindrical oval flat – flat and oblique honey – sometime red pleated - blistered collar half-soft absent soft - firm (honeyed)
Flesh thickness Presence of fibres Flesh to seed adhesion Length Width Length/width ratio Main weight of 20 fruits (g) Main flesh weight of 20 fruits (g)
thin medium not much short medium medium 160 137
sub-cylindrical brown - beige smooth - rough
Length Width Length/width ratio
medium narrow medium
no
Main weight of 20 seeds (g)
23
at the middle prominent
Seed/Fruit length ratio Seed/Fruit weight ratio
medium medium
lanceolate medium medium
N° of spathes/tree N° of spikelets in the spike N° of flowers in one spikelet
medium medium medium
SEED Shape Colour Surface Presence of mucro or fibrous type Micropyle position Ventral furrow shape INFLORESCENCE Spathe Shape Spathe length Spathe width
QUALITATIVE PARAMETERS Total sugar content (%) Fructose (%) Glucose (%) Sucrose (%)
67,3
Magnesium (mg/kg) Potassium (mg/kg) Zinc (mg/kg) Iron (mg/kg)