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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. |