Zanthoxylum clava-herculis Size:Bare Root Blooming in April

Blooming in April

understated effect in a shaded border

From a leafy base rise slender stems three to five feet tall

and the plant grows faster and proves far easier to please than the notoriously temperamental Franklinia

Site the dwarf sweetbay in moist

Zanthoxylum clava-herculis Size:Bare Root Blooming in AprilA 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