Apr 23, 2024 · Lycium is a Middle Eastern shrub that has been used for healing and cooking since biblical times. It is also known as the Goji bush in China, where it grows. While its use dates back to the Middle East, ancient Chinese texts from the …

Lycium barbarum is a deciduous woody shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–3 metres (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in). It is characterised by its weak arching branches, and the side branches are often reduced to short leafless spines.

Lycium are shrubs, often thorny, growing 1 to 4 meters tall. The leaves are small, narrow, and fleshy, and are alternately arranged, sometimes in fascicles. Flowers are solitary or borne in clusters. The funnel-shaped or bell-shaped corolla is white, green, or purple in color.

Lycium. Much-branched spiny stemmed shrubs, occasionally with a definite primary trunk; leaves usually narrow and short (<10x longer than wide), elliptical to widest near apex, deciduous, usually in fascicles.

Jun 23, 2020 · Lycium chinense commonly known as Chinese wolfberry is a major Chinese tonic herb, first mentioned in the Divine Husbandman’s Classic, written in the 1st century AD. It is one of two species of boxthorn shrub in the family Solanaceae.

Lycium barbarum has been used in China for more than 2,000 years as a traditional medicinal herb and food supplement. Lycium barbarum contains abundant Lycium barbarum polysaccharides (LBPs), betaine, phenolics, carotenoids (zeaxanthin and ...

Small funnel-shaped or bell-shaped, white, lilac, purple flowers in spring. Ingestion of the leaves causes headaches, abdominal pain, dilated pupils, vomiting, diarrhea, circulatory and respiratory depression, and loss of sensation only if eaten in large quantities.

Lycium species exhibit broadleaf evergreen, deciduous, or semi-evergreen leaf characteristics. The leaves are small, narrow, fleshy, and green, with a simple leaf type and alternate arrangement. They vary in shape and size but generally possess an entire margin and a fleshy feel, making them quite distinct in appearance.

Lycium barbarum (Chinese Box Thorn) is a scrambling deciduous shrub with long, sparsely spiny stems clothed with narrow, lance-shaped, bright green leaves. In late spring and summer, small, tubular, pale purple to lavender flowers bloom on stalks rising from the leaf axils.

Lycium barbarum, commonly called matrimony vine, Chinese wolfberry, or goji berry, is a deciduous, suckering shrub native to northwestern and north-central China. It is widely grown for its edible berries and has escaped cultivation in Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia.