Passport Origin and distribution: common variety of Sokna, also exists in Hun and Waddan Productive area in Al Jufrah Oasis: 1 % Mean Production in Al Jufrah Oasis: 50 Kg/tree Agronomic characteristics: reasonable offshoots capacity Flowering period: March Commercial maturity stage: Balah and Tamar Harvest period: from October to November by cut of bunches Fruit and trade characteristics: one of the best variety to product vinegar and date syrup Quality
TREE Trunk shape Foliage shape Crown shape
cylindrical erected moderately dense
Bunch type Bunch density Bunch colour
oblique - falling dense greenish - yellow
FRUIT Shape Apex Base Color Skin appearance Alteration of skin colour Fruit texture Perianth Flesh texture
ovate - sub-cylindrical oval flat honey corrugated - tattooed sometime marbled half-soft - dry usually absent usually fibrous
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 much not much short large medium 154 129
sub-cylindrical - ovate beige – brown smooth - bumpy
Length Width Length/width ratio
medium medium medium
no
Main weight of 20 seeds (g)
25
SEED Shape Colour Surface Presence of mucro or fibrous type Micropyle position Ventral furrow shape
at the middle - towards the base Seed/Fruit length ratio
usually prominent
INFLORESCENCE Spathe Shape Spathe length Spathe width
lanceolate medium medium
Seed/Fruit weight ratio
high medium
N° of spathes/tree N° of spikelets in the spike N° of flowers in one spikelet
medium medium medium
QUALITATIVE PARAMETERS Total sugar content (%) Fructose (%) Glucose (%) Sucrose (%)
67,5
Magnesium (mg/kg) Potassium (mg/kg) Zinc (mg/kg) Iron (mg/kg)