Common name
English: Common pricklyash
German: Amerikanische Stachelesche
English: Common pricklyash
German: Amerikanische Stachelesche
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)
Order: Sapindales (72)
Family: Rutaceae (18)(family description)
Genus: Zanthoxylum (7)
Epithet: americanum P. Mill. (1)
Synonym: Zanthoxylum fraxineum Willd.
americanum => from America
fraxineum => resembling species of the genera Fraxinus
Climate: temperate
Habit: tree
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