What is the latest origin distribution of Chinese wolfberry?

The fruit of Lycium barbarum L. that people eat daily and officinal is mostly "Lycium barbarum L." Ningxia Lycium barbarum L. has the largest cultivated area in China. Ningxia Lycium barbarum L. is mainly distributed in Northwest China. Chinese Lycium barbarum L. is mainly distributed in Northeast China, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, southern Gansu, Southwest China, Central China, South China and East China provinces.

Lycium chinense

Lycium chinense is distributed in northeast china, hebei, shanxi, shaanxi, southern gansu and southwest, central china, south china and east china provinces; korea, japan, europe has cultivated or escaped wild. Often born on hillsides, wasteland, hills, saline-alkali land, roadside and village houses. In addition to widespread wild in our country, there are also medicinal, vegetable or green cultivation everywhere.

Ningxia wolfberry

Lycium barbarum L. in Ningxia evolved from wild Lycium barbarum L. in Northwest China, and existing cultivars can still grow wild under suitable conditions. The early medicinal wolfberry in China is the product collected from wild wolfberry in Northwest China. There have been records of medicinal wolfberry in medical books of Qin and Han Dynasties. Sun Simiao, a famous medical scientist at the beginning of Tang Dynasty, said in Qianjin Yi Fang: Lycium barbarum L. takes "Ganzhou (Zhangye area of Gansu Province today) as true, and Ye Houda as true." Shen Kuo, a scientist of the Northern Song Dynasty, recorded in his "Dream Stream Pen Talk":"Lycium barbarum, Shaanxi extreme edge living, Gao Zhangyu, sweet and different from others."

identification method

According to the distribution characteristics of the two species of Lycium barbarum, it can also be simply judged that if it is found in the eastern, central and southern regions of China, it is basically Lycium chinense or its varieties, if it is found in the northwest, it is basically Lycium barbarum or its varieties.