Lycium tetrandrum
Thunb.
SolanaceaeFruit
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The red berries are eaten.
Where to Find It
It is a subtropical plant.
Africa, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Africa,
Countries: Angola, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Benin, Botswana, Congo (DRC), Central African Republic, Congo (Republic), Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Djibouti, Algeria, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Gambia, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Comoros, Liberia, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Seychelles, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Somalia, South Sudan, Sao Tome & Principe, Eswatini, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe
How to Identify
A thorny shrub. It grows 3 m tall. The branches are stiff. The leaves are in tufts on short shoots. They are succulent. They are oval and 5-20 mm long by 2-3 mm wide. The flowers are cream and tube shaped with mauve petals. The fruit are red berries 3 mm across.
Names & Synonyms
Evoista spinosa Raf.Lycium afrum subsp. tetrandum (Thunb.) A. Terracc.Lycium marlothii Dammer
References (2)
- Ruiters-Welcome, A. K., 2019, Food plants of southern Africa. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Johannesburg p 103
- Welcome, A. K. & Van Wyk, B.-E., 2019, An inventory and analysis of the food plants of southern Africa. South African Journal of Botany 122 (2019) 136–179
