Fig. 6From: Making the most of scarce biological resources in the desert: Loptuq material culture in Eastern Turkestan around 1900Voucher specimen of wolfberry, Lycium ruthenicum, gathered by Sven Hedin at Lop Nor in the spring of 1900. On the label he noted the local plant name Ak-tikken, i.e. aq tikän, ‘white tikän’, with a note that it is very common, and a popular place name in the Lop Nor region (Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm)Back to article page