Prickly Ash, Tickle Tongue Tree, Toothache Tree, Texas Hercules Club (Zanthoxylu

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Wingnut Spicewood, TX(Zone 8b) May 31, 2002

Photo taken in my pasture in Spicewood, Texas.

Common name: Prickly Ash, Tickle Tongue Tree, Toothache Tree, Texas Hercules Club
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Zanthoxylum
Species hirsutum

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Aimee Georgetown, TX(Zone 8a) Jun 01, 2002

I like to bruise the leaves and smell this aromatic shrub. If I could get a laundry detergent with this scent, I would be ever so happy. However, I don't get too chummy with it, as one mistake with one of the stickers means pain for weeks. I especially like the glossy leaves.

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