Where is the real Lycium barbarum produced?

Authentic Chinese wolfberry is produced in Ningxia.

Ningxia is the traditional authentic producing area of Lycium barbarum, mainly concentrated in Zhongning County, shapotou district County and Haiyuan County in Zhongwei. Guyuan city; Helan County, Yinchuan City; Huinong District and Pingluo County of Shizuishan City; Wuzhong City Yanchi County, Tongxin County, Hongsibao District, Litong District and other places, the core producing area is Zhongning County, and the Lycium barbarum produced in this area is called "Zhongning Lycium barbarum", which is an authentic medicinal material.

Introduction of Lycium barbarum

Lycium barbarum is a multi-branched shrub with a height of 0.5- 1 m, which can reach more than 2 m when cultivated; Branches are slender, bow-shaped or drooping, light gray, with longitudinal stripes, and thorns are 0.5-2 cm long. The thorns of leaves and flowers are longer, and the tips of branchlets are sharp and prickly. Leaves papery or slightly thick, simple leaves alternate or 2-4 in clusters.

Flowers solitary or twined in the axils of leaves on long branches, clustered with the same leaves on short branches; Pedicel length 1-2 cm, gradually thickening towards the top. Calyx 3-4 mm long, usually 3- cleft or 4-5-toothed, lobes hairy; Corolla funnel-shaped, 9- 12 mm long, lavender, tube suddenly swollen upward, slightly shorter than or nearly equal to cornice lobes.

5. The lobes are elliptic, the tips are blunt, flat or slightly bent outward, the edges are hairy, and the basal ears are prominent; Stamens slightly shorter than corolla, or protruding from corolla due to corolla lobes abduction. Filaments densely form a loop of fluff near the base and interweave into oval clusters, and also densely form a loop of fluff with the inner wall of corolla tube at the height of clusters. Style slightly protrudes from stamens, the upper end is arched, and the stigma is green.

Refer to the above information: Baidu Encyclopedia Lycium barbarum