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white pricklyash
Zanthoxylum martinicense
Zanthoxylum martinicense, the Martinique prickly ash, white pricklyash, or espino rubial, is an evergreen tree with pinnately compound leaves and thick conical spines on its bark. It grows up to 20 m tall. Male and female flowers are on separate trees. The flower clusters (panicles) are terminal and much branched, bearing many almost stalkless flowers.
From the article Zanthoxylum martinicense on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Range & habitat
Zanthoxylum martinicense is native to the West Indies and northern South America including Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
What it does
The fruit has five parts, each of which splits open to reveal a single shiny black seed. The seeds are small (0.0009 g) and dispersed by birds.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Ecology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 475766.