| A study was carried out to investigate some chemical components of leaves and fruits of four jujube ( Sidr ) cultivars, ( Ziziphus mauritiana Lam.cultivar.Zaito , Ziziphus manuritiana Lam. Cultivar. Tuffahi , Ziziphus spina-christi(L.)Wild,.cultivar. Bambawi , Ziziphus spina-christi ( L. )Wild,.cultivar Bathri ). The active components (alkaloids and saponin) were extracted by soxhlet apparatus and using the organic solvent ethanol, butanol, methanol, or chloroform and were separated by using Thin Layer Chromatograph ( T.L.C ) technique , Cold , hot water extracts were prepared for leaves and fruits .The chemical test for the alcoholic extracts were positive for all components ( alkaloids and saponin ) for all parts of cultivars studied , while the test for aqueous extracts showed different responses .The results showed that the saponin gave the highest component in leaves and fruits of studied cultivars and they were (8.25 , 24.1 gram per 100 gram) and the lowest value was the alkaloid ( 3.55 , 3.6 gram per 100 gram) dry matter respectively . The number of separated compounds by T.L.C methods in relation to alkaloid varied from two to five compounds with different cultivar and the results showed that the number of alkaloids and saponin compound which separated from the leaves of Zaitoni and Tuffahi cultivars were equal, it could be these cultivar belong to the same species. The results showed that the number of saponin compounds were higher in the leaves of all cultivars, comparing with the fruits, this support traditional uses of leaves and other pharmacological uses . |