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Lycium chinense / Kuko クコ

Bloom time: July-November

   
Family:
 
Solanaceae /
Nasuka

 


 

Notes For Reference:- 

Species, Varieties, or Forms in the Genus Lycium:

Lycium chinense / Kuko

   

Lycium chinense / Kuko クコ

 

Lycium chinense: A deciduous shrub in sunny wastelands, seashores, water edge banks, forest edges, or roadsides. Branches have ridges, with the tips and axils covered in prickles. Leaves of alternate phyllotaxis attach onto branch tips in many cases, in clusters; blades are 2-4cm long and in an elliptical to lanceolate shape, with obtuse bases tapering to petioles, margins entire, and both surfaces with no hairs. Axils on brachyblasts put 1-3 purple flowers on them; corollas measure about 1cm, funnel-shaped, and the upper parts are cleft in five; calyxes are bell-shaped, and the upper parts are generally cut in five. Sap fruit, about 1cm long and oblong, matures red from late summer to early winter. Bloom time: July-November.

                     
               
                     

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