Botanical Name. Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides
Family. Rutaceae
Common Name. Candlewood, toothache bark.
Nigerian Name. Orin-ata ( Yoruba), fasa-kuwari ( Hausa), aga (Igbo), ata (I gala).
Description
| Shrub or small tree, spiny and more or less scandent, up to 6–8(–12) m tall, with straight, often short bole and rounded and quite dense crown; bark grey to beige, rough, with fine vertical fissures, often with woody prickle-bearing protuberances; slash yellow, odorous, orange-mottled beneath; stems glabrous, grey, with solitary prickles. Leaves alternate, glabrous, imparipinnately compound with 5–7(–11) opposite or alternate leaflets, up to 12(–20) cm long; petiole 2–5 cm long, glabrous, spiny beneath with recurved prickles; stipules absent; petiolules 2–5 mm long; leaflets obovate to elliptical, 5–10 cm × 2–4 cm, base cuneate to rounded, apex obtuse or rounded, sometimes apiculate or notched, with many glandular dots, smelling of pepper and lemon when crushed, rigidly papery, pinnately veined with 10–14 pairs of lateral veins, barely prominent, fusing near the margin. Inflorescence a lax terminal or axillary panicle 5–25 cm long, with short branches. Flowers unisexual, regular, 5-merous, white or greenish, sessile; corolla barely open; male flowers with stamens slightly exserted; female flower with superior ovary, 1-celled, style short, lateral. Fruit an ovoid follicle, 5–6 mm in diameter, brown, with glandular dots, dehiscent, 1-seeded. Seed black to bluish, shiny, long persistent in the fruit.
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Nice write up brother, My interest is the seeds. Have not seen them before. You can add the pictures of the seeds and fruits to your website, because it would make more sense. Thanks again!
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Thanks @ Clement . I will update the post soon.
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