Seabuckthorn, a deciduous shrub in the family of Hoodiaceae, genus Seabuckthorn, is widely used for soil and water conservation because of its characteristics of drought resistance, sand resistance and the ability to survive on salinized land.

Seabuckthorn is planted in large quantities in northwestern China for desert greening. Sea buckthorn fruit has high content of vitamin C, and is known as the king of vitamin C. Sea buckthorn is a general name for the plant and its fruit. The plant sea buckthorn is a deciduous shrub in the genus of sea buckthorn in the family of Hoodiaceae.

Seabuckthorn is a positive tree species, like light, can grow under the open forest, but can not be adapted to the large degree of depression of the forest area. Sea buckthorn is not very strict to the soil requirements, in the corn calcium soil, gray calcium soil, brown calcium soil, meadow soil, black soil are distributed, in gravel soil, mild saline soil, sandy soil, even in the arsenic sandstone and half-stone and half-soil areas can also grow but do not like too heavy soil.

Morphological features:

Deciduous shrub or tree, 1.5 meters high, growing in alpine valleys up to 18 meters, spiny, stout, terminal or lateral; shoots brownish-green, densely covered with silvery-white and brownish scales or sometimes with white stellate pilose, the old branches grayish-black, rough; buds are large, golden-yellow or rusty color.

Single leaves usually subopposite, borne similarly to branches, papery, narrowly lanceolate or momentarily lanceolate, 30-80 mm long, 4-10(-13) mm wide, obtuse at both ends or nearly rounded at the base, widest at the base, green above, initially covered with white peltate hairs or stellate pilose, silvery-white or whitish below, covered with scales, without stellate hairs; petiole very short, several absent or 1-1.5 mm long.

Fruit orbicular, 4-6 mm in diam., orange-yellow or orange-red; fruiting pedicel 1-2.5 mm long; seeds small, broadly ellipsoid to ovate, sometimes slightly compressed, 3-4.2 mm long, black or purplish-black, glossy. Flowering April-May, fruiting September-October.