Zanthoxylum

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Zanthoxylum
Zanthoxylum piperitum foliage
Zanthoxylum piperitum foliage
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Zanthoxylum
Species

About 250, see text.
Leafless Z. simulans showing its knobbed bark
Leafless Z. simulans showing its knobbed bark

Zanthoxylum (from the Greek ξανθὸν ξύλον, "yellow wood") is a genus of about 250 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae, native to warm temperate and subtropical areas worldwide. Common names include prickly-ash and hercules' club.

The fruit of several species are used to make the spice Sichuan Pepper. They are also popular as bonsai trees.

[edit] Selected species

  • Zanthoxylum acanthopodium
  • Zanthoxylum ailanthoides - Japanese Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum alatum - Winged Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum americanum - Toothache tree; Northern Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum beecheyanum
  • Zanthoxylum bifoliolatum - Maricao Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum buesgenii
  • Zanthoxylum capense
  • Zanthoxylum caribaeum - Yellow prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum clava-herculis - Hercules' Club; Southern Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum coco - Coco or smelly sauco
  • Zanthoxylum coreanum - Korean lime tree
  • Zanthoxylum coriaceum - Biscayne prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum davyi
  • Zanthoxylum dipetalum - Kawa'u
  • Zanthoxylum fagara - Lime Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum flavum - West Indian Satinwood
  • Zanthoxylum hawaiiense - Hawaii Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum hiemale
  • Zanthoxylum hirsutum - Texas Hercules' Club
  • Zanthoxylum humile
  • Zanthoxylum kauaense - Kauai Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum leprieurii
  • Zanthoxylum martinicense - White Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum monophyllum - Yellow Prickle
  • Zanthoxylum nitidum - Shining Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum oahuense - Oahu Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum ocumarense
  • Zanthoxylum ovatifoliolatum
  • Zanthoxylum naranjillo - Naranjillo
  • Zanthoxylum parvum - Tickletongue
  • Zanthoxylum pinnatum
  • Zanthoxylum piperitum - Japanese Pepper Tree; Japan Pepper
  • Zanthoxylum planispinum - Bamboo-leaf Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum punctatum - Dotted Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum rhetsa - Teppal
  • Zanthoxylum rhoifolium
  • Zanthoxylum sancho
  • Zanthoxylum schinifolium - Mastic-leaved Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum simulans - Chinese Prickly-ash
  • Zanthoxylum spinifex - Niaragato
  • Zanthoxylum thomasianum - St Thomas Prickly-ash

Zanthoxylum species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including The Engrailed.

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