Wolfberry

Wolfberry is also another name for the western snowberry, Symphoricarpos occidentalis.
Wolfberry

Lycium barbarum fruits
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Asterids
Order:
Solanales
Family:
Solanaceae
Genus:
Lycium
Species
Lycium barbarum L.
Lycium chinense Mill.
Lycium halimifolium Mill. (synonym for L. barbarum)
Lycium ovatum Loisel. (synonym for L. chinense Mill. var. chinense
Lycium turbinatum Veill. or Loisel. (synonym for L. barbarum)
Lycium vulgare Dunal (synonym for L. barbarum)
Wolfberry - commercially called goji berry - is the common name for the fruit of two very closely related species: Lycium barbarum (Chinese: 寧夏枸杞; pinyin: Níngxià gǒuqǐ) and L. chinense (Chinese: 枸杞; pinyin: gǒuqǐ), two species of boxthorn in the family Solanaceae (which also includes the potato, tomato, eggplant, deadly nightshade, chili pepper, and tobacco). Although its original habitat is obscure (probably southeastern Europe to southwest Asia), wolfberry species currently grow in many world regions.[citation needed] Only in China, however, is there significant commercial cultivation.
It is also known as Chinese wolfberry, goji berry, mede berry,barbary matrimony vine, bocksdorn, Duke of Argyll's tea tree, Murali (in India),[1] red medlar or matrimony vine. [2] Unrelated to the plant's geographic origin, the names Tibetan goji and Himalayan goji are in common use in the health food market for products from this plant.

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