Macro Photography On Lycium Barbarum, The Chinese Wolfberry, The Chinese Boxthorn, Himalayan Goji Or Tibetan Goji. Stock Image

Macro photography on the flowering plant Lycium Barbarum, the Chinese Wolfberry, Chinese Boxthorn, Himalayan Goji, Tibetan Goji, Mede Berry or Barbary Matrimony wine a fruit in high demand. Goji, goji berry, or wolfberry is the fruit of either Lycium barbarum or Lycium chinense, two closely related species of boxthorn in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. he fruit has also been an ingredient in traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese medicine since at least the 3rd century AD. In pharmacopeias, the fruit of the plant is called by the Latin name lycii fructus and the leaves are called herba lycii. Since about 2000, goji berry and derived products have become common in developed countries as health foods or alternative medicine remedies, extending from exaggerated and unproven claims about their health benefits.