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Lycium barbarum

Index Lycium barbarum

Lycium barbarum is a tree native from southeastern Europe and Asia. [1]

87 relations: Africa, Amino acid, Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Atropine, Australia, Autonomous regions of China, Bawdsey, California, Carl Linnaeus, Carotenoid, Chinese language, Choline, Cultivar, Damascenone, Deciduous, Dehiscence (botany), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Desert, Desertification, Diosgenin, Ellipsoid, English language, Erosion, Flavonoid, Floodplain, Glossary of leaf morphology, Goji, Gouqi jiu, Gynoecium, Hadleigh, Suffolk, Hardiness zone, Hedge, Hippophae, Hui people, Ipswich, Isoquercetin, Kaempferol, Lanosterol, Leaf, Lemon, Linoleic acid, List of culinary fruits, List of dried foods, Lycium, Lycium chinense, Lycium ferocissimum, Mongolia, Myricetin, Myristic acid, Niacin, ..., Ningxia, Northwest China, Oligopeptide, P-Coumaric acid, Palmitic acid, Pedicel (botany), Pennsylvania, Perennial plant, Polysaccharide, Proline, Proteoglycan, Quercetin, Riboflavin, Rutin, Salicylic acid, Scopoletin, Sepal, Solanaceae, Stamen, Standard Tibetan, Suffolk, Tasmania, Thiamine, Tibet, Traditional medicine, Trimethylglycine, United Kingdom, Vanillic acid, Victoria (Australia), Vitamin C, Walberswick, Western China, Wood, Xinjiang, Yellow River, Zeaxanthin, Zhongning County. Expand index (37 more) »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Amino acid

Amino acids are organic compounds containing amine (-NH2) and carboxyl (-COOH) functional groups, along with a side chain (R group) specific to each amino acid.

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Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll

Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, 1st Earl of Ilay (June 1682 – 15 April 1761) was a Scottish nobleman, politician, lawyer, businessman, and soldier.

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Atropine

Atropine is a medication to treat certain types of nerve agent and pesticide poisonings as well as some types of slow heart rate and to decrease saliva production during surgery.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Autonomous regions of China

An autonomous region (AR) is a first-level administrative division of China.

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Bawdsey

Bawdsey is a village and civil parish in Suffolk, eastern England.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Carotenoid

Carotenoids, also called tetraterpenoids, are organic pigments that are produced by plants and algae, as well as several bacteria and fungi.

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Chinese language

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family.

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Choline

Choline is a water-soluble vitamin-like essential nutrient.

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Cultivar

The term cultivarCultivar has two denominations as explained in Formal definition.

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Damascenone

Damascenones are a series of closely related chemical compounds that are components of a variety of essential oils.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/dɪˈsɪdʒuəs/) means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Dehiscence (botany)

Dehiscence is the splitting along a built-in line of weakness in a plant structure in order to release its contents, and is common among fruits, anthers and sporangia.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Desert

A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life.

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Desertification

Desertification is a type of land degradation in which a relatively dry area of land becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife.

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Diosgenin

Diosgenin, a phytosteroid sapogenin, is the product of hydrolysis by acids, strong bases, or enzymes of saponins, extracted from the tubers of Dioscorea wild yam, such as the Kokoro.

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Ellipsoid

An ellipsoid is a surface that may be obtained from a sphere by deforming it by means of directional scalings, or more generally, of an affine transformation.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Erosion

In earth science, erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that remove soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location (not to be confused with weathering which involves no movement).

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Flavonoid

Flavonoids (or bioflavonoids) (from the Latin word flavus meaning yellow, their color in nature) are a class of plant and fungus secondary metabolites.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.

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Glossary of leaf morphology

The following is a defined list of terms which are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants.

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Goji

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.

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Gouqi jiu

Gouqi jiu can refer to several varieties of Chinese alcoholic beverage.

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Gynoecium

Gynoecium (from Ancient Greek γυνή, gyne, meaning woman, and οἶκος, oikos, meaning house) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.

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Hadleigh, Suffolk

Hadleigh (pronounced) is an ancient market town and civil parish in South Suffolk, East Anglia, situated, next to the River Brett, between the larger towns of Sudbury and Ipswich.

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Hardiness zone

A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined to encompass a certain range of climatic conditions relevant to plant growth and survival.

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Hedge

A hedge or hedgerow is a line of closely spaced shrubs and sometimes trees, planted and trained to form a barrier or to mark the boundary of an area, such as between neighbouring properties.

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Hippophae

Hippophae is a genus of sea buckthorns, deciduous shrubs in the family Elaeagnaceae.

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Hui people

The Hui people (Xiao'erjing: خُوِذُو; Dungan: Хуэйзў, Xuejzw) are an East Asian ethnoreligious group predominantly composed of Han Chinese adherents of the Muslim faith found throughout China, mainly in the northwestern provinces of the country and the Zhongyuan region.

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Ipswich

Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk, England, located on the estuary of the River Orwell, about north east of London.

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Isoquercetin

Isoquercetin is a flavonoid, a type of chemical compound.

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Kaempferol

Kaempferol is a natural flavonol, a type of flavonoid, found in a variety of plants and plant-derived foods.

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Lanosterol

Lanosterol is a tetracyclic triterpenoid and is the compound from which all animal and fungal steroids are derived.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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Lemon

The lemon, Citrus limon (L.) Osbeck, is a species of small evergreen tree in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, native to Asia.

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Linoleic acid

Linoleic acid (LA), a carboxylic acid, is a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid, an 18-carbon chain with two double bonds in cis configuration.

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List of culinary fruits

This list of culinary fruits contains the names of some fruits that are considered edible in some cuisines.

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List of dried foods

This is a list of notable dried foods.

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Lycium

Lycium is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae.

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Lycium chinense

Lycium chinense is one of two species of boxthorn in the family Solanaceae from which the goji berry or wolfberry is harvested, the other being Lycium barbarum.

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Lycium ferocissimum

Lycium ferocissimum, the African boxthorn or boxthorn, is a shrub in the nightshade family (Solanaceae).

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Mongolia

Mongolia (Monggol Ulus in Mongolian; in Mongolian Cyrillic) is a landlocked unitary sovereign state in East Asia.

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Myricetin

Myricetin is a member of the flavonoid class of polyphenolic compounds, with antioxidant properties.

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Myristic acid

Myristic acid (IUPAC systematic name: 1-tetradecanoic acid) is a common saturated fatty acid with the molecular formula CH3(CH2)12COOH.

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Niacin

Niacin, also known as nicotinic acid, is an organic compound and a form of vitamin B3, an essential human nutrient.

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Ningxia

Ningxia (pronounced), officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China located in the northwest part of the country.

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Northwest China

Northwestern China includes the autonomous regions of Xinjiang and Ningxia and the provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai.

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Oligopeptide

An oligopeptide, often just called peptide (oligo-, "a few"), consists of two to twenty amino acids and can include dipeptides, tripeptides, tetrapeptides, and pentapeptides.

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P-Coumaric acid

p-Coumaric acid is a hydroxycinnamic acid, an organic compound that is a hydroxy derivative of cinnamic acid.

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Palmitic acid

Palmitic acid, or hexadecanoic acid in IUPAC nomenclature, is the most common saturated fatty acid found in animals, plants and microorganisms.

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Pedicel (botany)

A pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Polysaccharide

Polysaccharides are polymeric carbohydrate molecules composed of long chains of monosaccharide units bound together by glycosidic linkages, and on hydrolysis give the constituent monosaccharides or oligosaccharides.

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Proline

Proline (symbol Pro or P) is a proteinogenic amino acid that is used in the biosynthesis of proteins.

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Proteoglycan

Proteoglycans are proteins that are heavily glycosylated.

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Quercetin

Quercetin, a plant flavonol from the flavonoid group of polyphenols, is found in many fruits, vegetables, leaves, and grains; red onions and kale are common foods containing appreciable content of quercetin.

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Riboflavin

Riboflavin, also known as vitamin B2, is a vitamin found in food and used as a dietary supplement.

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Rutin

Rutin, also called rutoside, quercetin-3-O-rutinoside and sophorin, is the glycoside combining the flavonol quercetin and the disaccharide rutinose (α-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1→6)-β-D-glucopyranose).

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Salicylic acid

Salicylic acid (from Latin salix, willow tree) is a lipophilic monohydroxybenzoic acid, a type of phenolic acid, and a beta hydroxy acid (BHA).

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Scopoletin

Scopoletin is a coumarin.

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Sepal

A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants).

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Solanaceae

The Solanaceae, or nightshades, are an economically important family of flowering plants.

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Stamen

The stamen (plural stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.

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Standard Tibetan

Standard Tibetan is the most widely spoken form of the Tibetic languages.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is an East Anglian county of historic origin in England.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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Thiamine

Thiamine, also known as thiamin or vitamin B1, is a vitamin found in food, and manufactured as a dietary supplement and medication.

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Tibet

Tibet is a historical region covering much of the Tibetan Plateau in Central Asia.

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Traditional medicine

Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within various societies before the era of modern medicine.

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Trimethylglycine

Trimethylglycine (TMG) is an amino acid derivative that occurs in plants.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Vanillic acid

Vanillic acid (4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzoic acid) is a dihydroxybenzoic acid derivative used as a flavoring agent.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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Vitamin C

Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid and L-ascorbic acid, is a vitamin found in food and used as a dietary supplement.

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Walberswick

Walberswick is a village and civil parish on the Suffolk coast in England.

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Western China

Western China (or rarely) is the west of China.

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Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

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Xinjiang

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (شىنجاڭ ئۇيغۇر ئاپتونوم رايونى; SASM/GNC: Xinjang Uyĝur Aptonom Rayoni; p) is a provincial-level autonomous region of China in the northwest of the country.

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Yellow River

The Yellow River or Huang He is the second longest river in Asia, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth longest river system in the world at the estimated length of.

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Zeaxanthin

Zeaxanthin is one of the most common carotenoid alcohols found in nature.

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Zhongning County

Zhongning County is a county under the administration of Zhongwei city in west-central Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the northwest.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycium_barbarum

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