Bali Bekul trees in general can be found in dry areas such as Nusa Dua, Jimbaran, Ungasan, and Denpasar. A tree with slender stems, but many branches, has spines on each stem. At the harvest time of the fruit, each was filled with Bekul fruit of a reddish-yellow color.

Bekul, Bidara, or Sidir in Arabic have so much usefulness. The Latin name is Zizyphus mauritiana L., or Zizyphus jujube. All parts of the tree can be used as medicine and have other benefits. Roots, stems, bark, fruit, leaves, and flowers have high medicinal benefits. Bekul has been used traditionally for thousands of years by people (African, Indian, Arabic, Chinese, Malay, and many countries in Asia) and has been tested by scientists in China, India, and the West. In Japan and Europe, bekul trees are used in beauty products and medications to treat skin cancer.

Bali Bekul fruit has a high nutritional value and contains vitamin A, vitamin C, carotene, vitamin B complex, magnesium, iron, potassium, and antioxidant bioflavonoids. Also filled with active phytokimia ingredients such as acid triterpenoids, saponins, and alkaloids. Contained in fruits, leaves, and roots are used to selectively kill cancer cells without damaging normal cells.

By famous Chinese society with their herbal medicine, fruit bekul is used as material for patient care, as cough medicine, and can strengthen or protect the heart, lungs, and liver from damage caused by the chemicals that we eat. This is proven by clinical and laboratory testing.

Green leaves can be used as a medication for eye pain, ear pain, itching,  vaginal discharge, hemorrhoids, toothache, and others. And some are using Bekul leaves that have been crushed to be used as a face mask to tighten the skin and eliminate acne.

For Bali people, the dry Bekul timber is used for the manufacture of twigs and knives and as firewood. For fruit, it is used as a material for Bali Spicy Fruit Salad, which has a very sweet and sour, astringent taste.