Texas Desert-Thorn

(Lycium texanum)

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Description

“Pet poisonous” – Toxic parts: leaves, shoots Lycium texanum is a highly branched, with spines occupied shrub . Its foliage leaves are up to 20 mm long and 30 mm wide. They are short stiff hairy hairy. The flowers are hermetic and four- or five-fold. The calyx is cup- shaped, the calyx is 1.5 to 3 mm long. The crown is spread, lavender colors, and fading to white. The corolla is 7 to 8 mm long and has 1.5 to 2.5 mm long crown lobes. The stamens are hairy with a few scattered trichomes . he fruit is an orange-red, egg-shaped or elliptical berry , which reaches a length of 3 to 8 mm. It contains a variety of seeds .

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Solanales
Family:Solanaceae
Genus:Lycium
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