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Lycium barbarum is a plant of Lycium genus in Solanaceae.
Lycium barbarum is a multi-branched shrub with a height of 0.5 ~ 1 m, which can reach more than 2 meters when cultivated. The branches are slender, arched or drooping, light gray, with longitudinal stripes, and the thorns are 0.5 to 2 cm long. The thorns of leaves and flowers are longer, and the tips of branchlets are sharp and prickly. Leaves papery or slightly thick, simple leaves alternate or 2-4 clusters, ovoid, ovoid-rhombic, oblong, ovoid-lanceolate, pointed at the top, wedge-shaped at the base, 1.5-5 cm long and 0.5-2.5 cm wide. The cultivator is bigger, reaching more than 10 cm, with a width of 4 cm. The petiole is 0.4 to 1 cm long.
Flowers solitary or twined in the axils of leaves on long branches, clustered with the same leaves on short branches; Pedicel length 1 to 2 cm, gradually thickening towards the top. Calyx 3 to 4 mm long, usually 3-lobed or 4 to 5-toothed, lobes hairy; Corolla funnel-shaped, 9 to 12 mm long, lavender, tube suddenly expanding upward, slightly shorter than or nearly equal to eaves-shaped lobes, 5-lobed, lobes oval, rounded at the top, flat or slightly curved outward, hairy at the edge, and conspicuous at the base; Stamens slightly shorter than corolla, or protruding from corolla due to corolla lobes abduction. Filaments densely form a loop of fluff near the base and interweave into oval clusters, and also densely form a loop of fluff with the inner wall of corolla tube at the height of clusters. Style slightly protrudes from stamens, the upper end is arched, and the stigma is green.
Berries are red and oval, and cultivators can grow round or rectangular, with sharp or blunt tips, 7 to 15 mm long, 2.2 cm long and 5 to 8 mm in diameter. Seeds flat kidney-shaped, 2.5 to 3 mm long, yellow. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to165438+1October.
Lycium barbarum: sweet and flat. Lycium barbarum leaves: bitter and sweet; Cold sex.
Because of its drought tolerance, it can grow in sandy land, so it can be used as a shrub for soil and water conservation, and because of its saline-alkali tolerance, it has become a high-quality tree species in saline-alkali land.
Lycium barbarum has beautiful tree shape, pale purple leaves and bright red fruits. It is a good bonsai ornamental plant, and some Lycium barbarum have been cultivated.
Edible
Young leaves can be used as vegetables. In Guangdong, Guangxi and other places, Lycium barbarum buds have become very popular and can be bought in vegetable markets.
Lycium barbarum can be processed into various foods, beverages, health wines and health products. Lycium barbarum is often added when making soup or porridge.
Seed oil can be made into lubricating oil or edible oil, and can also be processed into health care products and medlar oil.