snake-eyes

An often overlooked or unrecognized shrub that looks similar to Lycium and some Condalia species. The fruiting plant has clusters of smallish (~5mm) berries with whitish/clear flesh and with a single dark seed in the middle. They look somewhat like little eyes and have common name of snake-eyes in English and mal de ojo in Spanish. In Sonora it grows primarily in thorn-scrub/TDF understory, in the lusher parts of the Sonoran Desert, and sometimes in semi-desert grassland.