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Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderSolanales
- FamilySolanaceae
Native toChina North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Mongolia, Nansei-shoto, Qinghai, Taiwan
Observations recorded8,580
China, cultivated for hedges and naturalised elsewhere.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 915
- With media
- 656
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Collections
- UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, OSU, NHA, DEK, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, COCO
- Recorded in
- United States, China, Nepal
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Subclass of
- useful plant
- Parent taxon
- Lycium
- Image
- Lycium chinense marnay 25 sept 2008.jpg
- Has use
- vegetable
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- Commons category
- Lycium chinense
- taxon rank
- species
- taxon name
- Lycium chinense
- taxon common name
- 牛吉力
- Commons gallery
- Lycium chinense
- this taxon is source of
- goji
- taxon range
- Zhoushan Archipelago
- short name
- L. chinense
- taxon author citation
- Mill.
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Encyclopedic overview
Lycium chinense is one of two species of boxthorn shrub in the family Solanaceae. Along with Lycium barbarum, it produces the goji berry ("wolfberry"). Two varieties are recognized, L. chinense var. chinense and L. chinense var. potaninii. It is also known as Chinese boxthorn, Chinese matrimony-vine, Chinese teaplant, Chinese wolfberry, wolfberry, and Chinese desert-thorn.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lycium chinense” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.