When does Chinese wolfberry blossom and bear fruit? Which areas are mainly distributed in our country?

Chinese wolfberry is a general term for commercial Chinese wolfberry, Ningxia wolfberry, Chinese wolfberry and other species of Chinese wolfberry. So when does Chinese wolfberry usually blossom and bear fruit? Which areas are mainly distributed in our country?

The first flowering and fruiting of Lycium barbarum is on the branches formed in the previous year (the local custom calls the branches formed in the previous year as old eye branches, and the fruit of old eye branches is called old eye fruit), budding in mid-April (10Mel 20), beginning flowering in late April (20Mue 30) to early May (1MUE 10), blooming in mid-May (10Mui 20), and maturing in mid-June (10Mui 20). Fruit harvesting continues until the first ten days of July (1Mel 10th). The second flowering and fruiting of Lycium barbarum is the branch growing in spring, showing buds in early May, blooming in early June, and maturing in early July. The third flowering and fruiting of Chinese wolfberry is to grow branches in autumn. After the old eye fruit was picked, the old eye branch grew new branches after a period of nutrient accumulation. The new branches showed buds in the middle of August, blossomed in early September and matured in early October.

Distribution area of China

Chinese wolfberry: distributed in Northeast China, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Southern Gansu and Southwest, Central, South and East China provinces; cultivated or wild in Korea, Japan and Europe. Often born on hillsides, wastelands, hills, saline lands, roadsides and village houses. In addition to the widespread wild in our country, it is also cultivated for medicine, vegetables or greening in various places.

Ningxia Lycium barbarum: evolved from wild Lycium barbarum in northwest China, existing cultivated varieties can still be wild under suitable conditions. The early medicinal Chinese wolfberry in China is the product of wild Chinese wolfberry collected in the northwest, and it has been recorded in the medical books of the Qin and Han dynasties. Sun Simiao, a famous medical scientist in the early Tang Dynasty, said in Qianjin Yifang: Chinese wolfberry is true in Ganzhou (present-day Zhangye area in Gansu Province) and thick leaves are. " Shen Kuo, a scientist of the Northern Song Dynasty, recorded in "Mengxi Writing talk": "Chinese wolfberry, born on the extreme edge of Shaanxi, is more than Gao Zhangyu, and he is different from others."

Some other species of the genus Lycium are also often referred to locally as wolfberry, such as Yunnan Lycium barbarum (LyciumyunnanenseKuang) or Lycium barbarum L. (LyciumcylindricumKuang). Due to the narrow distribution of these species, it is not easy to see, so most of them are Chinese wolfberry or Ningxia wolfberry. And according to the distribution characteristics of the two kinds of Chinese wolfberry, we can also make a simple judgment, that is, if it is found in the eastern, central and southern regions of China, it is basically Chinese wolfberry or its variety, and if it is found in the northwest, it is basically Ningxia Chinese wolfberry or its variety.