Passport Origin and distribution: variety exists in most of dry farm plantations in Sokna and also in Hun and Waddan. It’s not present in Al Fugha Productive area in Al Jufrah Oasis: 0,2 % Mean Production in Al Jufrah Oasis: 40 Kg/tree Agronomic characteristics: well adapted to the area and used to be as a mean for swapping commodity during the caravan period. Very good offshoots capacity Flowering period: march Commercial maturity stage: Tamar Harvest period: October by harvest the bunches Fruit and trade characteristics: for storing and past Quality
TREE Trunk shape Foliage shape Crown shape
usually cylindrical Bunch type erected Bunch density moderately dense - dense Bunch colour
FRUIT Shape Apex Base Color Skin appearance Alteration of skin colour Fruit texture Perianth Flesh texture
sub-cylindrical oval – round off flat-oval and oblique honey - dark brown blistered no half-soft absent firm (honeyed)
SEED Shape Colour Surface Presence of mucro or fibrous type Micropyle position Ventral furrow shape
erected - oblique moderately dense yellow- orange - orange
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)
medium much not much medium large medium 175 152
brown smooth - bumpy
Length Width Length/width ratio
medium narrow medium
sometime both
Main weight of 20 seeds (g)
23
at the middle not prominent
Seed/Fruit length ratio Seed/Fruit weight ratio
medium medium
N° of spathes/tree N° of spikelets in the spike N° of flowers in one spikelet
not much not much not much
spindle-shaped - sub-cylindrical
INFLORESCENCE Spathe Shape Spathe length Spathe width
lanceolate medium medium
QUALITATIVE PARAMETERS Total sugar content (%) Fructose (%) Glucose (%) Sucrose (%)
66,5
Magnesium (mg/kg) Potassium (mg/kg) Zinc (mg/kg) Iron (mg/kg)