Lycium barbarum -Goji berry

Wolfberry, popularly known as Goji berry, is a fruiting shrub of the nightshade family that produces small, oblong, red, edible fruit about 2cm long, of a bitter-sweet taste and after drying, sweet and sour. Goji berries are considered one of the healthiest fruits in the world. For thousands of years the healing properties of Goji berries have been used in traditional Chinese and Japanese medicine. It's fruting in summer (August-September). Stems covered with thorns, leaves lanceolate, oblong, with a length of up to 10cm, grows to about 1-3m high. High frostresistance up to -30°C. It needs permeable soil, of a pH of neutral to slightly alkaline.