About Thorny Yellow-Wood
Zanthoxylum ovalifolium, commonly known as thorny yellowwood, oval-leaf yellow wood or little yellowwood, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae. It is a shrub or tree usually with trifoliate leaves, white, male and female flowers arranged in panicles in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets and red, purple or brown follicles.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Zanthoxylum ovalifolium
- Genus
- Zanthoxylum
- Family
- RUTACEAE
- Habit
- Shrub
- Habitat
- Evergreen forests and deciduous forests
- Distribution
- India, Myanmar, Java, Papua & New Guinea
- Flowering & fruiting
- November-August
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Nepali
- नाँगे टिमुर Naange Timur
- Bengali
- ছোট তিমুর Chota Timur
- Telugu
- రిజాయి Rijayi
- Kannada
- ಅರಮಾದಳ Aramaadala, ಕಾಡು ಮೆಣಸು Kaadu Menasu
- Malayalam
- കാന്തം കൊളുത്ത് Kaantham Koluthu, കാട്ടുമുളകു Kaattumulaku, കാന്തം കൊളുത്ത്
Botanical family
Rutaceae
Citrus/Rue family
Thorny Yellow-Wood belongs to the Rutaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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