{"id":11137,"date":"2020-11-10T09:01:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T09:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/lycium-l-2\/"},"modified":"2021-07-25T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T10:22:57","slug":"lycium-l-2","status":"publish","type":"genus","link":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/en\/genuses\/lycium-l-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lycium L."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Genus composed of about 88 species, distributed mainly through dry and even desert areas of the New World, with about 25 species that are native to Africa. In North Africa it is represented by 4 native species (<strong>L. europaeum<\/strong>, <strong>L. intricatum<\/strong>, <strong>L. shawii<\/strong> and <strong>L. schweinfurthii<\/strong>) and 2 introduced species, that a good distinction should be made so as not to make mistakes in the management of natural ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p><em> L. barbarum <\/em>L. (<em>L. halimifolium <\/em>Mill., <em>L. vulgare <\/em>Dunal). It is differentiated by its flowers, with highly exserted stamens, showing outside the corolla about the same length as the calyx and corolla combined. Corolla with larger lobes, 3.8-6(7) mm, the same size as the corolla tube. Fruit also red but elongated, oblong (they are the popular goji berries). Native to China, it is grown in gardens for its ornamental value and it is adventitious and apparently naturalised in many coastal areas of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt, including the Sinai Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p><em> L. afrum<\/em> L.. It is also a spiny shrub up to 2 m in height, with leaves on the stems and spines in fascicles of 5-12, (11)14-18(24) \u00d7 0.8-2 mm, linear or narrowly oblong, with apex acute or subobtuse, succulent, glaucous, glabrous. Flowers solitary, with pedicel 5-10(13) mm, erect-patent when flowering and reflexed when fruiting. Calyx 4-6(8) \u00d7 4.5 mm, campanulate or slightly tubular, with 5 lobes <em>c.<\/em> 1.5 mm, subequal, erect, acute. Corolla with fused petals, (13)15-20 \u00d7 5-8 mm, dark brown or red-violet, infundibuliform or tubular, glabrous on the outside, laxly pilose on the inside, with 5 lobes 2-3 mm, from broadly ovate to suborbicular, obtuse, patent. Stamens reaching the mouth of the corolla, inserted to the middle of the corolla tube 7-10 mm from the base, with filaments 7-8 mm, hairy at the base. Style 12-18 mm, reaching the mouth of the corolla. Fruit a berry 8-13 \u00d7 8-10 mm, spherical or slightly ellipsoid, very dark red, almost black. Seeds 1.5-2 mm, subdiscoid to ovoid. Species from areas of the western part of southern Africa that have winter rainfall. It grows in coastal sands and sandy dunes and low mountain slopes. It is cultivated as an ornamental for its flowers, and in some areas is has escaped from cultivation and is now apparently naturalised in other parts of Africa and around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-11137","genus","type-genus","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lycium L. - North Africa Trees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lycium L. - North Africa Trees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Genus composed of about 88 species, distributed mainly through dry and even desert areas of the New World, with about 25 species that are native to Africa. 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