Lycium brevipes
Benth.
Baja desert thorn
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(c) Fred Melgert / Carla Hoegen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Fred Melgert / Carla Hoegen
What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit are edible.
Where to Find It
It is a Mediterranean climate plant. It grows in the desert.
Mexico, North America, USA,
How to Identify
A small herb in the nightshade family (Solanaceae) growing to about 20 cm tall. It is found in Mediterranean climate deserts, particularly in the Baja region.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Lycium brevipes is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by the common name Baja desert-thorn. It is native to northwestern Mexico and it occurs in California as far as the Sonoran Desert as well as some of the Channel Islands. It grows in the scrub of desert and coastline. It is also used as a southwestern landscaping plant. This is a bushy, spreading shrub approaching a maximum height of 4 metres (13 ft) with many long, thorny, tangled branches. The branches are lined with small, fleshy green leaves up to 1.5 centimetres (0.59 in) long and coated with glandular hairs. The inflorescence is a small cluster of tubular flowers roughly 1–2 centimetres (0.39–0.79 in) long including the calyx of sepals at the base. The lavender to nearly white corolla is funnel-shaped and has 2 to 6 lobes at the mouth. The five stamens and one style protrude from the flower. The fruit is a bright red spherical berry about a centimeter wide containing many seeds. The berries attract birds.
Names & Synonyms
Baja wolfberry
