About Lycium cinereum Thunb.
Lycium cinereum Thunb. is a small, stiff, very spiny shrub. It produces rigidly erect-spreading, intricately branching stems. Young stems are grey-white with striations, while older stems mature to a dark glossy brown. Like many other Lycium species, its leaves range in shape from oblong to narrowly-elliptic. Flowers grow from the leaf axils. The corolla is tubular, with five large reflexed petal lobes. The extended stamens are very clearly exserted, meaning they stick out beyond the opening of the corolla. The calyx has a shape ranging from tubular to campanulate, and its length is almost equal to its width. The calyx is relatively short, and covers less than half of the corolla tube. The fruits produced by this species are small, ovoid, red berries.
