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Peach Thorn
( Lycium cooperi )
Lycium cooperi
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About Peach Thorn (Lycium cooperi)
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Lycium cooperi
is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by the common name peach thorn. It is native to the southwestern United States, where it grows in a variety of desert and mountain habitat types. This is a bushy, erect shrub approaching a maximum height of 4 meters with many rigid, thorny branches. The branches are lined thickly with fleshy oval or widely lance-shaped leaves each 1 to 3 centimeters long and coated with hairy hairs. The flower cluster is a small cluster of tubular flowers roughly 1 to 2 centimeters long including the calyx of fleshy sepals at the base. The flower is white or greenish with lavender or green veining. The corolla is a tube opening into a face with four or five lobes. The fruit is a yellow or orange berry under a centimeter wide containing many seeds.
Plant Description
Plant Type
Shrub
Size
13.1 ft tall
Flower Color
Lavender
Flowering Season
Spring
Wildlife Supported
Butterflies & moths hosted ( 3
likely
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Carolina Sphinx
Manduca sexta
Manduca sexta
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Five-spotted Hawkmoth
Manduca quinquemaculata
Manduca quinquemaculata
*
Loxostege albiceralis
Loxostege albiceralis
Landscaping Information
Sun
Full Sun
Nurseries
Carried by 1
Soil Drainage
Fast
Natural Setting
Site Type
Sandy rocky flats, washes
Climate
Annual Precipitation: 2.7" - 34.8", Summer Precipitation: 0.12" - 3.27", Coldest Month: 33.9" - 60.4", Hottest Month: 58.5" - 88.7", Humidity: 2.83" - 40.75", Elevation: -124" - 7941"
Alternative Names
Common Names
: Cooper's Box-thorn, Cooper's Wolfberry
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Lycium cooperi
Sources include:
Wikipedia
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
. Plant observation data provided by the participants of the
California Consortia of Herbaria
, Sunset information provided by
Jepson Flora Project
. Propogation from seed information provided by the
Santa Barbara Botanical Garden
from "Seed Propagation of Native California Plants" by Dara E. Emery. Sources of plant photos include
CalPhotos
,
Wikimedia Commons
, and independent plant photographers who have agreed to share their images with Calscape. Other general sources of information include
Calflora
,
CNPS Manual of Vegetation Online
,
Jepson Flora Project
,
Las Pilitas
,
Theodore Payne
,
Tree of Life
,
The Xerces Society
, and information provided by CNPS volunteer editors, with special thanks to Don Rideout. Climate data used in creation of plant range maps is from
PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University
, using 30 year (1981-2010) annual "normals" at an 800 meter spatial resolution.
Links:
Jepson eFlora Taxon Page
CalPhotos
Wikipedia
Calflora
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