The bright red berries are usually harvested in late summer or early autumn. The roots are usually harvested in the spring. Berries and roots can be used either fresh or dried.
Lycium shrubs typically have thorny branches with small, oblong-shaped leaves. They produce small, tubular flowers that can range in color from pink to purple. The shrub also bears small red berries that are often used for culinary and medicinal purposes.
All parts of the plant are used, from the seeds to the roots.
Bayberry bark, roots and berries.
Although, all parts of the shrub are used--berries, bark, leaves, and seeds--it is the oil of the seed that is used most commonly today.
The ripe, berries and needles from the tree are used in herbal medicine. The tree's therapeutic properties stem from a volatile oil found in the berries.
The berries of R. cathartica are harvested when ripe. The bark of R. frangula and R. purshianus is harvested in the summer and dried. Young bark is preferred.
The Chinese most commonly use the bud of the flower in their medical practice, in other countries it is mostly the flowers and leaves that are used for their healing properties.
Chinese wolfberry and its Chinese name is Gou Qi Zi.
A rose plant is classified as a shrub. While some herbs are plants with aromatic leaves used for food or medicinal purposes, roses are considered ornamental shrubs due to their woody stems and flowers.
The bark of the branches and roots of the plant. The root bark should be harvested only in the fall. Bark from the branches may be used either in spring or fall.
Hawthorn's flowers, leaves, and fruit (berries) are used as medicine, although the flowers have an unpleasant smell and taste slightly bitter. The fruit is sour. Collected and dried at room temperature.
It grows wild on hillsides in the cooler regions of northern China and Tibet. However, it is also grown as a cultivated plant in almost all parts of China and in some other regions of Asia.