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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus pp 265–269Cite as

Diospyros lotus L. Ebenaceae

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Synonyms

Dactylus trapezuntinus Forssk.; Diospyros calycina Dippel; Diospyros mediterranea Oken; Diospyros microcarpa Siebold; Diospyros umlovok Griff

Local Names

Armenia: (Khurma sovorakan); Azerbaijan: Аdi хurmа; Georgia: – chveulebrivi khurma, – khvima (Megrelian), – khvimra (Megrelian), – khvirma (Megrelian), – khoma (Megrelian), – khumla (Gurian) (Makashvili 1991); English: Date-plum, Caucasian persimmon.

Botany and Ecology

Tree, up to 15 or rarely 20 m tall, the trunk up to 35 cm in diameter, with dark gray splitting bark. Young branches light yellowish-brown or gray, smooth, with whitish lanceolate lenticels. Shoots glabrous and covered with grayish pubescence. Petiole 1–1.5 cm long, stout, compactly pubescent. Leaves shed without change in color, 5–14 cm long, 2.5–6 cm wide, firmly membranous, oblong-elliptic to broadly lanceolate, base broadly cuneate or rounded, apex acuminate or abruptly narrow, margins entire and often undulate, bright green above, grayish-green below,...

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  1. Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Naiba P. Mehdiyeva & Valida M. Alizade

  2. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Botanikuri St. 1, 0105, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  3. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, 5, Cholokasvili Ave, 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

  4. Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Cota Cota Calle 27, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  5. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

  6. Institute of Botany of National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

    George Fayvush & Alla Aleksanyan

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Mehdiyeva, N.P. et al. (2017). Diospyros lotus L. Ebenaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_130

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