About Indian Prickly Ash
Zanthoxylum rhetsa, commonly known as Indian prickly ash, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and occurs from India east to the Philippines and south to northern Australia. It is a deciduous shrub or tree with cone-shaped spines on the stems, pinnate leaves with between nine and twenty-three leaflets, panicles of white or yellowish, male and female flowers, followed by spherical red, brown or black follicles.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Zanthoxylum rhetsa
- Genus
- Zanthoxylum
- Family
- RUTACEAE
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Evergreen and moist deciduous forests
- Distribution
- India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malay Peninsula, Java, Philippines, Moluccas, S. Papua
- Flowering & fruiting
- March-November
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Tamil
- Iraccai, Iraccaimaram, Karuppuk kaliyana murunkai
- Telugu
- morapu, raccamanu, racha
- Kannada
- ಜುಮ್ಮಿ Jummi, Jummina, ಅರಮಾದಲ
- Malayalam
- Kothumurikku, Mullilavu, Mullilam
- Marathi
- Chiphal, Chirphala, Kokli
Rutaceae
Citrus/Rue family
Indian Prickly Ash belongs to the Rutaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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