jujuba

/YOO-yoo-bah/
[Finnish] plural jujubat / jujubia

Jujubes. These are wrinkled, olive-shaped berries with a stone which grow on a shrub related to buckthorn. They ripen from green, through red to dark brown. It has sticky flesh slightly reminiscent of a date. They are mostly dried, crystallised or made into thick jelly like Turkish delight.

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