Lycium horridum flower

Lycium horridum flowers may also be pale mauve with dark lines on the inside surfaces of its short corolla lobes that spread and become slightly reflexed.

Old flowers seem to bleach to white before they turn brown in the end. There is also a bud still short enough to be enfolded by the pointed calyx lobes among the stem-tip leaves (Coates Palgrave, 2002; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2010; Shearing and Van Heerden, 2008; iSpot; JSTOR).