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Lycium ferocissimum
Also called Box Thorn, Cape Box Thorn, Dune Honeythorn, Snakeberry Honeythorn
Lycium ferocissimum is a species of flowering plants in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. It is sometimes referred to by the common names African boxthorn, boxthorn, and snake-berry. This shrub is native to Cape Provinces, Free State, and Lesotho.
The species is native to the Western Cape and Eastern Cape provinces in South Africa, where it tends to occur in sands along the southern coast. It has also been recorded in the Free State, but these may represent introductions. It has been widely introduced in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa, as far north as Morocco. It has been recorded in Sardinia, Italy. This shrub is found in other Mediterranean countries such as Tunisia and Spain. There is one record in France from 2020.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lycium ferocissimum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
