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Lychium chinense
Wolfberry
Plant Type:
DECIDUOUS SHRUBSLychium chinense – Wolfberry. Small gray-green leaves and purple flowers for a long season are followed with small red berries. Wolfberry can be grown as an open upright shrub with some of its arching branches self-layering where they touch the ground. It can be well-employed as a utilitarian shrub stabilizing embankments sited in full sun to part shade. Plant Lychium chinense in less than fertile soils. It will become an impressive though somewhat coarse shrub in time. Cutting grown.
Characteristics and Attributes for Lychium chinense
Season of Interest (Flowering)
- Spring / Summer
Season of Interest (Foliage)
- Spring / Summer / into Autumn
Autumn Interest
- Fruit / Berries / Seed Heads
Nature Attraction
- Honey Bees & Native Bees
Light
- Mostly Sunny
- Full Sun
Attributes
- Drought Tolerant
- Ground Cover
- Shrub Border
- Massing
- Bank
Growth Rate in the Garden
- Moderately Fast
Soil
- Adaptable
Origins
- China
Propagated By
- Cutting Grown