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Petiole 1-11(-14) mm long; leaf blade mostly 0.5-13 cm long, the margin usually plane; corolla lobes mostly white, with 2 lateral segments; mature fruit purple, 3-13 mm long; seeds 3-12 mm long.

Mature stems with thorns and/or short shoots, the short shoots sometimes with pseudowhorled leaves; leaf blades rounded to rounded-acute at the apex (or often acute-acuminate in S. lycioides); inflorescence nodes usually well-spaced, the inflorescences not touching or occasionally somewhat overlapping; ovary pubescent.

Stem and leaves not glaucous; leaf blade midvein mostly straight and distinct to the tip, reticulate venation generally apparent (unless obscured by pubescence), the upper surface without spicules.

Leaf blade underside lustrous with dense pubescence, the green color of the blade surface not apparent.

Young stems densely pubescent, the stem bark dark brown, red-brown, to purple-gray; mature leaf blade underside with red-brown trichomes (sometimes silvery white and only slightly tawny on young leaves), some villous or ascending; pedicels 6-12 mm long

Sideroxylon tenax.

Monarch butterfly (danaus plexippus, MWTAG.ORG tag number ‘ACJU 064’) nectaring on California Cruicillo (pseudoziziphus parryi) imported into the Lake Wales Ridge from the California Chaparral as an ornamental and/or fruit crop root stock in the late 1800s or early 1900s. The largest known specimen should indicate one of the original attempts of California Crucillo, aka Wild Plum, aka Parry's Jujube. This could be found most likely at Bok Gardens, known for installation of ornamentals from across the globe.