each bloom splits into narrow
the restless English-American naturalist who botanized the young United States more thoroughly than almost anyone of his generation
From a leafy base rise slender stems three to five feet tall
and in cold-winter regions move potted plants to shelter before hard frost
understated effect in a shaded border
Zanthoxylum clava-herculis Size:Bare Root each bloom splits into narrowA native tree that bites back, and can numb a toothache. Zanthoxylum clava herculis, the toothache tree or Hercules' club, is a small to medium deciduous tree of the citrus family, native along the coastal Southeast from Virginia to Florida and Texas. The genus name Zanthoxylum means yellow wood, and the species clava herculis, the club of Hercules, names the stout, spiny, club shaped trunk that is the tree's signature. Everything about the plant is