Goji berry of Ningqi No.2 is new kind of boji berry with high yield, high quality and high adaptability which is selected from the best varieties of cannabis leaves goji berries with single-plant selection, and has beenpromoted the cultivation in Ningxia, Xinjiang, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Hubeiand other provinces or autonomous regions.
The tree vigor of goji berry of Ningxia No.2 is strong with fast growth, opening crown, ventilation and light penetrating. After planted in Ningxia for 6 years, the tree is 1.59m high, the root is 6.0cm thick and the crown diameter is 1.9m. The barks are brown, the branches of current year are gray and white, and the shoots are reddish and white. The branches with fruits are slender and soft with a few thorns, the branches are 35.4cm long in average and up to 95cm with 1.41cm long of internodes. The leaves on the biennial branches are dark green and lanceolate, the alternate leaves and 2 ~ 3opposite leaves on the current branches are lanceolate with 2.61 – 7.45 cmlong, 0.65 – 1.43 cm wide, 0.457 mm thick. The flowers of the plants are especially big with 1.67 cm long and 1.57 cm in diameter of petals, there are dense fluffs near the base of filaments, the petals are recurved, and the calyxes are cracked. The fruits are also big, spindle shaped with a sharp tip, thelongitudinal diameter is 2.43 cm and the transverse diameter is 0.98 cm in average, the fruits are 0.178 cm thick, and the fresh to dry is 4.38 to 1, thethousand-grain weight of fruits are 590.5 grams. And seeds account for 6.77% weight of the fruit.
According to anatomical features, a layer of cutin membrane out of theepidermic cells from twigs, leaves, roots thickens like waves, and there are more crystal-containing cells in the flesh, the middle of the mesophyll, the cortex and the pith of the branch, and the cortex of the root. The structure of leaf is near to isobilateral leaf whose upper epidermal cells are thicker than the lower epidermal cells, the vascular cylinder is in the middle of the mesophyll, and palisade cells enlarge to water storing cells. The area of leaf is6.7 cm2, the ratio of its volume to area is 0.0457. The upper and lowerepidermal cells of the leaves are 19.46 and 12.16 microns thick and the mesophyll is about 425.38 microns thick. There are 4.3 vascular cylinders in the transverse section of the leaf. The size of stomas in the upper epidermisof leaf is 563.5 microns, the density is about 71.8 per square millimeter. The size of stomas in the lower epidermis of leaf is 539.3 microns, the density is about 118.3 per square millimeter. The leaves are bid and thin with large fruits. Goji berry of Ningxia No.2 is a kind of high yield variety under thecondition of water and fertilizer.
Goji berry of Ningxia No.2 contains vitamin C of 22.11 mg /100 grams, 8 kinds of essential amino acids of 1.631 mg /100 mg, carotene of 6.30 mg / 100 grams and goji berry polysaccharide 1.647% with immunologic function.
Goji berry of Ningxia No.2 has strong adaptability to soil, and can grow on sandy soil, light loam and clay soil. However, the most suitable is to grow it on fertile sandy soil or light soil. In Ningxia, the branches with bear fruits at the same year on the light sierozemthe with 1 nmol / L -0.158 nmol/L density of hydrogen ion, pH9.0-9.8,and water table of 90-100 cm. The yield of fruit will be 332.6 kg/mu in the sixth year, the rates of bearing super fruit, a grade fruit, b grade fruit and c grade fruit are 71.30%, 15.20%, 10.80% and 2.70%. The plant has a strong ability of root rot resistance, but people should also pay attention to prevent the pests such as goji berry aphids and gojiberry red midges.
