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Zanthoxylum acanthopodium, known as andaliman, is a spiny shrub or small tree in the citrus family whose peppery berries are used as a spice, mainly in Batak cooking in North Sumatra. It grows in the wild across the Himalayas, southern China and Southeast Asia, and is usually grown outdoors in warm, frost-free climates.
Zanthoxylum acanthopodium, or andaliman, is a flowering plant in the family Rutaceae. Its range includes southwestern China, Bangladesh, Bhutan, north and northeastern India, Nepal, Laos, Myanmar, northern Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia (northern Sumatra highlands), and Peninsular Malaysia.
The plant is native to the Toba Samosir District, Dairi Regency, and North Tapanuli Regency in North Sumatra, Indonesia. It is found in Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet, and Yunnan in China. It is spread across Northeast India, i.e., Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, and Sikkim. It is also found in Peninsular Malaysia, northern Thailand, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bhutan, and in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal in India.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Zanthoxylum acanthopodium by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
