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Prickly Yellow

Zanthoxylum riedelianum

Also called Pricklywood, White Copal

Prickly Yellow
Photo: Patricia dos Santos, CC BY-SA 4.0

Zanthoxylum riedelianum is a spiny tree of the citrus family (Rutaceae) native to seasonally dry tropical areas from Mexico to tropical South America. It is rarely grown as a houseplant and is mainly known from wild and garden settings in warm climates.

Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Full sun
Water
Water deeply during the growing season and let the soil dry out between waterings; reduce sharply in the dry season.
Soil
Well-drained soil or sandy loam.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 5 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Mexico to S. Trop. America
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Zanthoxylum riedelianum is a species of the plant in the genus Zanthoxylum in the family Rutaceae. The native range of this species is Mexico to South America.

Other Zanthoxylum plants

Fagara externa · Zanthoxylum acanthopodium · Alianthus Like Prickly Ash · Zanthoxylum albuquerquei · Common pricklyash · Winged Prickly Ash · Climbing Orange · Zanthoxylum atchoum · Zanthoxylum austrosinense · Chinese Wingleaf Prickly Ash · Satinwood · Sichuan Pepper

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Zanthoxylum riedelianum 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.

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