What is the origin distribution of Chinese wolfberry?

Most of the wolfberry for daily consumption and medicine is the fruit of Ningxia wolfberry. Ningxia wolfberry has the largest cultivated area in China, and the producing area of Ningxia wolfberry is mainly distributed in northwest China. Chinese wolfberry is mainly distributed in Northeast China, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Southern Gansu and Southwest, Central, South and East China provinces.

Chinese wolfberry

Chinese wolfberry is distributed in northeast China, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, southern Gansu and the provinces of southwest, central, South and East China, and 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.

Lycium barbarum L.

Ningxia Lycium barbarum evolved from wild Lycium barbarum in northwest China, and the 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."

Identification method

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.