Big Lifeberry

Variety of Goji berry · Lycium barbarum

Western garden cultivar with notably large, juicy-sweet berries for fresh picking.

🇺🇸 USA

Taste & characteristics

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Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Larger-than-average red berries with a mild, sweet-tart flavour.

Vigorous, upright shrub reaching 3–3.5 m unpruned; trains well to a trellis.

Often fruits heavily within 1–2 years of planting.

Self-fertile; one of the most widely available named cultivars in the West.

Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Goji berry unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page

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