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Scientific name

Lycium chinense Mill.

Family

Solanaceae

Japanese

クコ

English

Chinese matrimony vine

General information

flowering period

Monthly blossoming season, distribution

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12

Stems

Main stems grow ascending and apex hang lowest, branches usually have prickles

Leaves

Alternate or caespitose, central parts wide ovate, cuspidate or obtuse, wide or narrow acute, both sides glabrous, margins smooth, petioles glabrous

Inflorescences

Bearing 1-4 flowers at axils

Habit

Dike or streamside

Distribution

China, Taiwan, Japan , Korea(widely distributed across country)

English common name

Chinese boxthorn, Chinese matrimony-vine, Chinese teaplant, Chinese wolfberry, wolfberry, Chinese desert-thorn

Life cycle

Deciduous broadleaf shrub

Flowering

Jul.-Sep.

Seed production and maturing

Sep.-Oct.

Height

4m

Flower color

Purple

Fruit

Berry, oblong and red coloured

Use

Ornamental, edible, medicine(Hemorrhage, nasal bleeding, hypertension etc.)

Bark

Grayish white

Branches

Twigs yellowish gray, glabrouse

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Specimen Information More Specimen Information

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  [ADNA200911251004]

  2000-08-10 / / 안동대학교 식물표본관

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  [ADNA200911272198]

  2008-10-05 / / 안동대학교 식물표본관

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