Fruit
Chico
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Chico is a compact, apple-shaped jujube selection linked to California Central Valley culture—medium fruit, sweet crisp flesh, and a tidy tree habit suited to smaller plantings. Flavour is balanced honey-apple when fully brown. It diversifies US cultivar sets with a distinctive squat shape. Good fresh market fruit and home orchard snack. Dries acceptably into small round dates. Harvest in passes as colour develops unevenly across the tree.
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Characteristics
Preparations
Fresh MarketHand EatingHome Orchard SnackMixed Cultivar BlockSmall Dried Dates
Traits
Apple ShapeCalifornia LinkCompact HabitCrispMediumMedium Sweet FruitRound SquatSweet
History
US
Chico jujube became associated with California trial and orchard plantings.
US
Valley growers maintained Chico among mixed jujube cultivar blocks.
US
Nurseries listed Chico for apple-shaped fresh fruit.
US
Chico remained a secondary but known US jujube name beside Li and Lang.