1. Ningxia wolfberry

Ningxia is the origin of wolfberry, and it has been cultivated for more than 500 years. Lycium barbarum has bright color, large grains, thin skin, thick flesh, few seeds, sweetness and superior quality. It is a wolfberry variety included in the New Chinese Pharmacopoeia. The State Administration of Medicine has designated Ningxia as the country's medicinal wolfberry production area and introduced it into the top ten countries in the country. One of the largest medicinal material production bases.

In "Compendium of Materia Medica" written by Li Shizhen, an outstanding medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty, Ningxia wolfberry is listed as a top grade in the book, saying that "Ningxia wolfberry is produced in Ningxia for medicinal purposes." It ranks among the top in the country in terms of nutritional value.

The main characteristics of Ningxia wolfberry: wolfberry grains are large, full, oblong, with few seeds and thick flesh, sweet taste, sweet aftertaste, bright red color, light when soaked in water, light naked seeds, and easy to soak in water. Floating up. The pH of the Loess Plateau in Ningxia is suitable for the growth of wolfberry. The temperature difference between day and night is large, and there is sufficient sunshine during the day. Compared with wolfberry in other places, the fruits are mostly long, bright red in color, and more nutritious.

Another characteristic of Ningxia’s wolfberry is that if you hold a handful in your hand and squeeze it hard, the wolfberry grains will be loose after being loosened, and the grains will not stick together.

2. Zhongning wolfberry

The regional topography of Zhongning County is silt-irrigated soil in the Qingshui River alluvial plain and silt-irrigated soil in the Yellow River alluvial plain, which is suitable for planting wolfberry. The original name of Zhongning wolfberry is Ning'an wolfberry, which is named after its origin in the Ning'an Fort area of ??Zhongning County. The fruit of Zhongning wolfberry is oval, 6-18 mm long and 6-8 mm in diameter. The surface is bright red or dark red, with irregular wrinkles and slight luster. There are style marks on the top and fruit stem marks on the other end.

The texture is soft, the flesh is thick and sticky, and it contains 25-50 seeds. Seeds are flat and kidney-shaped, up to 2.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, and earthy yellow. It has a slight odor, a sweet taste, and a slightly sour taste.

3. Huangguo wolfberry

Huangguo wolfberry is a variant of Ningxia wolfberry belonging to the Solanaceae family and Lycium barbarum, and is distributed in the Ningxia Autonomous Region. Mainly in Ningxia Autonomous Region, and scattered in northern and central China.

4. Black-fruited wolfberry

Black-fruited wolfberry (scientific name: Lycium ruthenicum? Murr.) is a thorny shrub belonging to the Solanaceae family and Lycium barbarum, up to 150 cm in height and multi-branched; Hard, with irregular vertical stripes, the tops of the branchlets become thorn-like, the internodes are shortened, there are clusters of leaves or flowers and leaves in clusters at the same time, and single leaves alternate on the young branches, thick and fleshy, the top is blunt and rounded, and the base is tapered. Narrow, midrib not obvious, flowers on short branches.

The pedicel is thin, the calyx is narrowly bell-shaped, the corolla is funnel-shaped, light purple, the lobes are oblong-ovate, and the ears are not obvious; the style and stamens are nearly equal in length. The berries are purple-black, spherical, and the seeds are kidney-shaped and brown. They bloom and bear fruit from May to October.

Distributed in northern Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Tibet in China; also found in Central Asia, Caucasus and Europe. Tolerant to drought, it often grows in saline-alkali soil wasteland, sandy land or roadside.

5. Xinjiang wolfberry

Xinjiang wolfberry, Latin name: Lycium dasystemum Pojark. Solanaceae, wolfberry is a multi-branched shrub with hard, slightly curved branches, gray-white or gray-yellow, tender The branches are slender, and the old branches have hard thorns; they are bare or bear leaves and flowers.

The leaf shape is variable, oblanceolate, elliptical, oblanceolate or broadly lanceolate, with an acute or blunt apex, a wedge-shaped base, extending down to a very short petiole, and ovate lobes. , there are sparse cilium on the edge; there are very sparse villi slightly above the base of the filament and at the same level as the inner wall of the corolla tube. Due to the abduction of the corolla lobes, the anthers are slightly exposed; the style is also slightly extended out of the corolla.

The berries are oval or oblong, red, and the seeds are kidney-shaped. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to September.

6. Red branch wolfberry

Multi-branched shrub, up to 1.5 meters high; branches are hard, slightly curved, gray-white or gray-yellow, young branches are slender, and old branches have hard thorns ; The spines are 0.6-6 cm long, naked or with leaves and flowers.

The leaf shape is changeable, oblanceolate, elliptical, oblanceolate or broadly lanceolate, with an acute or blunt apex, a wedge-shaped base, extending down to a very short petiole, 1.5- 4cm, width 5-15mm.

There are 2-3 flowers in clusters with the same leaves on short branches or solitary in leaf axils on long branches; the pedicel is 1-1.8 cm long and gradually thickens towards the top.

The calyx is about 4 mm long, often with 2-3 mid-lobes; the corolla is funnel-shaped, 9-1.2 cm long, the tube length is about twice the length of the eaves lobes, the lobes are ovate, with sparse edges. Mild; there are very sparse villi slightly above the base of the filaments at the same level as the inner wall of the corolla tube. Due to the abduction of the corolla lobes, the anthers are slightly exposed; the style is also slightly extended from the corolla.

The berries are oval or oblong, about 7 mm long, red, with more than 20 seeds, kidney-shaped, about 1.5-2 mm long. The flowering and fruiting period is from June to September. Old branches are brownish red, and the corolla lobes are hairless.

7. Lycium truncatum

Lycium truncatum, Latin name: Lycium truncatum Y. C. Wang? Solanaceae, Lycium barbarum shrub, with cylindrical branches, gray-white or gray-yellow, less Thorns.

Leaves are usually solitary on long branches, and several are clustered on short branches. They are strip-like or lanceolate, with sharp tips, narrowly wedge-shaped bases and extending downward into petioles, and thin pedicels. Thin, slightly thickening toward the top near the calyx, the lobes are membranous, and sometimes break after flowering to make the calyx truncated; the corolla is funnel-shaped, with the lower part thin and gradually expanding upwards, the lobes are oval, about the length of the tube Half, hairless.

The stamens are inserted in the middle of the corolla tube, slightly extending out of the corolla, and the base of the filaments is covered with sparse hairs; the flowers are in vain and slightly extend out of the corolla. The berries are oblong or egg-shaped, with a small pointed tip at the top. The seeds are orange-yellow, and the flowering and fruiting period is from May to October. Produced in Shanxi, northern Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and Gansu, China.

Reference link: Baidu Encyclopedia-Ningxia wolfberry

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