Matrimony vine
Lycium barbarum L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.5 m
- wide
- 4.0 m
Solanaceae
Also called Duke of Argyll's Teaplant, Goji berry, Chinese Boxthorn
Formerly Boberella halimifolia, Lycium barbatum, Lycium cochinchinense, Lycium dunalianum, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. & C. ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from PFAF, one source
- Height
- 2.5 mRead from Wikipedia and PFAF, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 1–3 m; PFAF 2.5–2.5 m
- Spread
- 4.0 mRead from PFAF, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from PFAF, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -15 °C (USDA zone 7b)Read from PFAF, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- LYCBAR, Հազազ բերբերի
- French
- Lyciet commun, Lyciet de Barbarie, lyciet
- German
- Gemeiner Bocksdorn, Gewöhnlicher Bocksdorn
- Czech
- kustovnice cizí
- Danish
- Bukketorn
- Dutch
- Boksdoorn, boksdoorn
- Ukrainian
- Дереза звичайна
- Norwegian Bokmål
- bukketorn
- Russian
- Дереза обыкновенная
- Korean
- 긴잎구기자나무
- Hebrew
- אטד פראי
- Finnish
- aitapukinpensas
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- PFAF, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Lycium barbarum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.