Passport Origin and distribution: rare variety exists in Sokna, Hun and Waddan. It’s not present in Zellah and Al Fugha Productive area in Al Jufrah Oasis: 0,5 % Mean Production in Al Jufrah Oasis: 50 Kg/tree Agronomic characteristics: reasonable offshoots capacity Flowering period: from the end of February to the end of March Commercial maturity stage: Rutab and Tamar Harvest period: from September to October by selection of dates and removing of bunches Fruit and trade characteristics: fresh fruits consumption and past Quality
TREE Trunk shape Foliage shape Crown shape FRUIT Shape Apex Base Color Skin appearance Alteration of skin colour
Fruit texture Perianth Flesh texture SEED Shape Colour Surface Presence of mucro or fibrous type Micropyle position Ventral furrow shape INFLORESCENCE Spathe Shape Spathe length Spathe width
cylindrical erected Moderately dense
Bunch type Bunch density Bunch colour
sub-cylindrical oval flat honey - amber from smooth to blistered
Flesh thickness Presence of fibres Flesh to seed adhesion Length Width usually no, sometime marbled Length/width ratio soft Main weight of 20 fruits (g) absent Main flesh weight of 20 fruits (g) soft - firm (honeyed)
medium medium not much medium large medium 241 214
sub-cylindrical beige – brown smooth
Length Width Length/width ratio
medium narrow high
mucro
Main weight of 20 seeds (g)
27
at the middle not prominent
Seed/Fruit length ratio Seed/Fruit weight ratio
medium low
lanceolate - spindle-shaped N° of spathes/tree medium N° of spikelets in the spike large N° of flowers in one spikelet
QUALITATIVE PARAMETERS Total sugar content (%) Fructose (%) Glucose (%) Sucrose (%)
oblique very dense - dense orange
66,1
Magnesium (mg/kg) Potassium (mg/kg) Zinc (mg/kg) Iron (mg/kg)
not much medium medium