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Yellow Prickle (Zanthoxylum schreberi)

Description

It is a shrub or small tree that reaches a size of 3-8 m high, trunks and branches armed with aculeans . The alternating leaves are present grouped in the apices of the twigs, unifolioladas of simple appearance, the leaflet irregularly elliptical (rarely obovate), of 6-12.5 cm long and 3-6 cm wide, apex rounded to acute, raquis terete.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Sapindales

            • Family: Rutaceae

              • Genus: Zanthoxylum