沙枣在我国主要分布在西北各省区和内蒙古西部。沙枣为灌木或乔木,高3～10米。树皮栗褐色至红褐色,有光泽,树干常弯曲,枝条稠密,具枝刺,嫩枝、叶、花果均被银白色鳞片及星状毛;果实长圆状椭圆形,直径为1厘米,果肉粉质,果皮早期银白色,后期鳞片脱落,呈黄褐色或红褐色。沙枣生命力很强,有抗旱,抗风沙,耐盐碱,耐贫瘠等特点。 Ears jujube in our country mainly in the provinces and autonomous regions in the northwest and western Inner Mongolia. Jujube for shrubs or trees, high 3 to 10 meters. Bark chestnut brown to reddish-brown, shiny, often curved trunk, dense branches, spines, twigs, leaves, flowers are silver-white scales and stellate hair; fruit oval oblong, 1 cm in diameter, Flesh silty, peel early silver-white, late scales off, was brown or reddish-brown. Dried dates strong vitality, drought, wind sand, salt, resistant to poor characteristics.