Fabaceae / Papilionaceae

Solanaceae
Lycium edgeworthii Dunal
(Syn: Lycium europeum auctt.)
English name:
Local name: Khandheri, Marari, Takar.
Description:
A much branched large, thorny, glabrous large shrub with the height range from 50-100 cm
tall. Leaves small narrow elliptic to obovate in clusters of 3 to 5. Flowers white, solitary
axillary or in group of 3 flowers between the whorled leaves. Fruit globose, fleshy, red,
many seeded.
Flowering Period:
Spring and summer.
Habitat:
It is common and gregarious in open dry and hot places in
the plains.
Uses:
The dried stem is usually used as fuel by locals.
Distribution:
Southern Iran, Pakistan and India.
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