(Rutaceae)
Zanthoxylum schinifolium  BSWJ11391

Description

Forming a medium sized deciduous shrub to only 2m tall where we gathered the seed for this collection, on the island of Shikoku Japan in 2006. With pinnate aromatic leaves to 25cm long made up of up to 19 elliptic crenate leaflets on pale well branched stems armed with dark needle-sharp spines. Bearing dense terminal many-flowered inflorescences of small yellowish flowers, soon followed by small reddish brown capsules which split to reveal the single glossy black seed. Easily cultivated in sun or shade in any type of drained fertile soil.