Zanthoxylum
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Zanthoxylum
Zanthoxylum piperitum foliage
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Sapindales Family: Rutaceae Genus: Zanthoxylum L.
Species
About 250, see text.

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.

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.

External links

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