Zanthoxylum simulans Hance

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Zanthoxylum simulans' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/zanthoxylum/zanthoxylum-simulans/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Synonyms

  • Z. bungei Planch. nom. nud.

Glossary

axillary
Situated in an axil.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
inflorescence
Flower-bearing part of a plant; arrangement of flowers on the floral axis.
midrib
midveinCentral and principal vein in a leaf.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
panicle
A much-branched inflorescence. paniculate Having the form of a panicle.
imparipinnate
Odd-pinnate; (of a compound leaf) with a central rachis and an uneven number of leaflets due to the presence of a terminal leaflet. (Cf. paripinnate.)

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Zanthoxylum simulans' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/zanthoxylum/zanthoxylum-simulans/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

A deciduous bush of graceful, spreading habit 10 ft or more high; said sometimes to be a small tree over 20 ft high. Branchlets downy or glabrous, armed with broad, flat spines 14 to 34 in. long. Leaves pinnate, 3 to 5, sometimes 9 in. long, aromatic; leaflets seven to eleven, broadly ovate, 12 to 2 in. long, slightly toothed; there are often a few spiny bristles on the upper surface, also on the midrib below; the main-stalk is armed beneath with short spines, also above, where the leaflets are attached. The inflorescence is a small panicle produced at the end of short, axillary twigs. Fruits reddish, with dark dots.

Native of China; introduced to Kew in 1869. One of the hardiest of the genus.