Food Plants International - Plant Fact Sheets Zanthoxylum nitidum

Edible : Spice, Fruit, Leaves - flavouring,

A shrub or scrambling vine. There are hooked thorns on the stems. Plants are separately male and female. The leaves are compound and alternate. Leaves are spiny underneath and also have small hairs. There are 5-9 leaflets and they are 5-10 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. A group of flowers occur in the axils of leaves or at the ends of branches. The flowers have 4 petals. They are cream, yellow or pink. They are 2 mm long. The fruit is a red follicle. It is 4-7 mm long and wide and has one seed. The seed is black and 4-5 mm long.

A tropical plant. It grows in rainforest. It grows between sea level and 500 m altitude in tropical Queensland. In Sikkim it grows between 1,000-2,000 m above sea level. In XTBG Yunnan.

Common names : Baghanchora, Honyor, Leuer, Parpartimur, Purpuray timur, Rau sung, Ri'kom, Singite, Sung, Tejmoi, Tejmuri, Tezamul, Tezmuri, Timur, Trong,

Synonyms :

Fagara nitida Roxb.;
Fagara torva (F. v. Mueller) Engler;
Zanthoxylum hirtellum Ridley;
Zanthoxylum hamiltonianum Wall. ex Hook.f.;
Zanthoxylum torvum F. Muell.;