ON THIS PLANT
Zanthoxylum nitidum, commonly known as shiny-leaf prickly-ash, tez-mui (in Assamese) or liang mian zhen (in China), is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae. It is a woody climber with prickles on the branchlets, thick, cone-shaped spines on the trunk and older branches, pinnate leaves with five to nine leaflets, and panicles or racemes of white to pale yellow, male or female flowers in leaf axils and on the ends of branchlets.
CHARACTERISTICS
Botanical profile.
- Genus
- Zanthoxylum
- Family
- Rutaceae
ALSO KNOWN AS
Other names.
en Shiny-leaved Prickly Ash
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