Natural Science Specimen
Natural Science Specimen
Classifier
Scientific Name
Zanthoxylum simulans Hance
Classification
Family
Genus
Species
Specimen Category
Storage Method
Field Collection Place
Locality Description
New Zealand, North Island, Gisborne Land District, Eastwoodhill Arboretum, D10, beside Crooks Walk path
Field Collection Date
06 Apr 1995
Field Collection Notes
Zanthoxylum simulans? = Z. bungei.
Many trunked small tree, 5-6m tall, 1-8 trunks per tree. Trunks covered in big pricks with sharp point, flattened. Bark white patched over brown. Spreading, open form. Leaves mid-green, smooth, matt, pinnate, 5-9 leaflets per leaf. Margins serrate. Paler green beneath. Round pink-red small fruit, surface bobbled - strongly smelling. Black shiny seed inside.
Prickly ash.
Ex Eastwoodhill Arboretum, "EWH" 279, received Sept 2018
Field Collector
Field Collection latitude/longitude
-38.56247, 177.72144 (± 50 m)
177.72144, 177.72144 (± 50 m)
Qualifier
?
Last Update
18 Dec 2019
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