Name:
Zanthoxylum americanumEnglish: Szechuan pepper; Chinese pepper; Japanese pepper; Aniseed pepper; Sprice pepper; Chinese prickly-ash; Fagara; Sansho; Nepal pepper; Indonesian lemon pepper; Ema; Kham pepper; Satijnboom; White wood; Prickly ash; Toothache tree.
Content: xanthoxyllin, a phenol, SC14H12O4.
DD: Hydrogen; Carbon;
Oxygenium;
Sulphur;
Calcium oxide;
Kalium oxide.
BotanyTrees, shrub or climber.
Stem: with spines.
Leaves: alternate; trifoliate, pinnate.
Flowers: small; unisexual.
Fruit: dry seed.