To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Goji berries - the new super fruit (Denver Daily News)
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 14:19:47 -0600
We usually buy some dried Lycium berries whenever we get to an oriental
grocery They are a nice snack, rather like a cross between raisins and
dried tomatoes. I've also soaked them in wine to add to fruit salads. They
supposedly are one of a number of famous health foods that are high in the
rare element germanium. I have read that the plants are naturalized in
parts of Virginia, but though I can get the seeds from the dried fruits to
sprout, I can't get them to grow. I suspect that they like sandy
well-drained soil, something I can't supply here. I did buy a plant years
ago and had it down in the shade by the creek in much better drained soil,
where it neither grew nor died till I got the bright idea of moving it (when
naturally it did the latter). Lycium is supposed to make a rather thorny
floppy bush that's good for covering a tree stump. Donna