Rutaceae FAMILY
Zanthoxylum kleinii
Zanthoxylum kleinii
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
1/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Zanthoxylum kleinii is a semideciduous tree with a large, open, rounded crown, growing from 4 - 15 metres tall. The crooked bole often branches from low down, it can be 20 - 30cm in diameter[ 625 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 3. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2009 ISBN 85-86714-34-4 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ]. The tree is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use of its wood.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeS. America - southern Brazil.
HabitatOpen forests, Araucaria grasslands, and forest edges, occasionally as an understorey tree in denser Araucaria woodland[ 625 Title Brazilian Trees. Volume 3. Publication Author Lorenzi. H. Publisher Instituto Plantarum De Estudos Da Flora; Brazil. Year 2009 ISBN 85-86714-34-4 Description Information on 350 species of Brazilian trees. Stunning photographs of each species, brief details on the plant, its uses and how to grow it from seed. A superb work, with the minor irritation that the translation from Portuguese is not of the best. ].