Lycium ruthenicum

Lycium ruthenicum, described by Murray in 1780, is a species in the genus Lycium of the Solanaceae family. It is distributed across regions including Afghanistan, China North-Central, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Mongolia, the North Caucasus, Pakistan, Qinghai, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, the Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. This plant is known by several common names, such as Russian box thorn, black fruit wolfberry, siyah goji, black goji, and kaokee. It is a flowering plant native to Central Asia and parts of the Russian Federation, as well as Northwest China and Northern India.