Description
Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maxim. (scientific name: Zanthoxylum bungeanum Maxim.) is a small deciduous tree of the Rutaceae family, Zanthoxylum bungeanum; the thorns on the stem up to 7 meters high often fall early, the branches have short spines, the leaves have small leaves, and the leaf shafts are often very narrow. The leaf wings; small leaves opposite, sessile, ovate, elliptical, sparsely lanceolate, larger at the top of the leaf shaft, with finely cracked teeth on the leaf margin, and oil spots on the teeth. The rest has no or scattered oil spots visible to the naked eye, the midrib is slightly concave on the leaf surface, the inflorescence is terminal or grows on the top of the lateral branches, the rachis and pedicel are densely pubescent or glabrous; the tepals are yellow-green, shape and size Roughly the same; female flowers have few developed stamens, carpels, and styles curved obliquely. The fruit is purple-red, with slightly raised oil dots scattered on the individual petals, with short awn tips or none at the top; flowering in April-May, and fruiting in August-September or October.
Zanthoxylum bungeanum is native to China, native to the Himalayas, and later transplanted along the river to the second step of Chinese geography. [6] China is distributed from the north to the south of the northeast, to the north slope of Wuling in the south, to the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the southeast, and to the southeast of Tibet in the southwest. It is not produced in Taiwan, Hainan and Guangdong. It can be found in the plains to the higher mountains, and in Qinghai, it can be found on the slopes of 2500 meters above sea level. It is also planted. Drought-tolerant, like sunshine, plant more everywhere.
The wood of Zanthoxylum bungeanum is typically light yellow, and the color becomes slightly darker when exposed to the air. The difference between the heartwood and sapwood is not obvious. The xylem structure is dense and uniform. The longitudinal section has silky luster. The wood has artistic value. Zanthoxylum bungeanum is used as a traditional Chinese medicine. It has the effects of warming the middle and promoting qi, dispelling the cold, relieving pain, and killing insects. Cure stomach and abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, schistosomiasis, roundworm and other diseases. Also used as an epidermal anesthetic.
