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Lycium horridum is a shrub in the nightshade family (Solanaceae) indigenous to South Africa as well as southern Namibia and Botswana.http://redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?species=2846-55
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Like many other Lycium species, the Leaf are oblong, to narrowly-elliptic or linear in shape. They are succulent but flattened, and are clustered on inconspicuous brachblasts.
The flowers emerge from the leaf axils. The Petal is small, white and tubular, with five (sometimes four) spreading lobes (petals) that are much shorter than the tube. The are only slightly exserted from the corolla mouth. The Sepal is tubular (about twice as long as wide) and, due to its shorter length, covers less than half of the corolla tube.
Unlike most of the African species of Lycium, L. horridum is dioecious.
The fruits are small red berries, that are rounded-to-ovoid but with a slightly pointed tip.Venter, A.M. (2000). Taxonomy of the Genus Lycium
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