The difference between black wolfberry and wolfberry

Last Update :2024.06.11

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1. Differences in leaves

2. The difference between flowers

3. Differences in fruits


Leaf differences: The leaves of black wolfberry are fleshy, strip-lanceolate, and have a blunt tip; the leaves of wolfberry are papery, and the leaves are oval or oblong with a sharp tip. Flower differences: The flowers of black wolfberry are funnel-shaped and light purple; the flowers of wolfberry are single or twin, lavender and funnel-shaped. Fruit differences: Black wolfberry berries are purple-black and spherical; wolfberry berries are red and egg-shaped.


The difference between black wolfberry and wolfberry
1. Differences in leaves

1. Differences in leaves

Black wolfberry has 2 to 6 leaves clustered on short branches. The leaves are thick and fleshy, almost sessile, and the leaves are strip-like or oblanceolate. Shape, sometimes narrowly lanceolate, with the leaf tips rounded and blunt, the base gradually narrowing, and the sides of the leaves sometimes curling slightly downward.

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The leaves of wolfberry are papery, single leaves alternate, or 2 to 4 in clusters. The leaves are oval, oblong, oval rhombus, or oval-lanceolate, with a sharp top and a wedge-shaped base, 1.5 to 1.5 to long. 5 cm, 0.5 to 2.5 cm wide.

 Wolfberry leaves.jpg

2. Flower differences

One to two black wolfberry flowers grow on short branches. The pedicels are thin and about 0.5 to 1 cm long. The calyx is narrowly bell-shaped and about 4 to mm long. The corolla is Funnel-shaped, light purple in color, about 1.2 cm long.

Black wolfberry

The flowers of wolfberry are growing They are single or twin on the branches in the leaf axils. The peduncle is 1 to 2 cm long, the calyx is 3 to 4 mm long, and the corolla is funnel-shaped, about 9 to 12 mm long, and is lavender.

Wolfberry

3. Fruit Differences

Black wolfberry berries are purple-black, spherical, sometimes slightly concave at the top, and about 4 to 9 mm in diameter.

Black wolfberry

The berries of wolfberry are red , ovate, 7 to 15 mm, seeds yellow, flat kidney-shaped.

Wolfberry.jpg


2. The difference between flowers

3. Differences in fruits














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