Have you heard the common names of these goji berries?

28-02-2023

Lycium barbarum, as a fruit that people love, what are the common names, let’s find out together:


Chinese: wolfberry (gouqizi); Ningxia wolfberry: ningxiagouqi; specifically L. barbarum


English: Lycium; lycii, goji, wolfberry


Japanese: クコシ (kukoshi)


Korean: 구기자 (kugija)

ningxia goji berry

The genus name "Lycium" of the genus Lycium comes from Lycia in the ancient southern Anatolia region in southern Turkey. Linnaeus used Lycium to name Chinese wolfberry in his "Plant Species" in 1753. The epithet "barbarum" is derived from ancient Greek, meaning "foreign" or "strange", indicating that Chinese wolfberry is not native to Europe, and the species epithet "chinense" indicates that it comes from China, which named Ningxia wolfberry: L. barbarum.


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