Lime Pricklyash
Zanthoxylum fagaranative · Central Texas
Lime Pricklyash is a tree native to Central Texas that grows 25–30 ft tall and 7 ft wide. It wants full sun or part shade and low water, and handles clay soil. Blooms yellow and green in Jan–Jun. Evergreen — it holds its leaves through winter. Good for birds and nectar insects.
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The facts
5 sources- Type
- Tree
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade (3–7 hrs of direct sun)
- Water
- Low
- Height
- 25–30 ft
- Spread
- 7 ft
- Bloom
- Jan–Jun · yellow, green
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Soil
- Takes clay · recorded on clay, dry, loam, sand, well drained
- Wildlife
- Supports birds, browsing mammals and nectar insects
Where it grows
No Level IV record in the launch area yet. Recorded in these Texas ecoregions:
Gulf Coast Prairies and MarshesSouthern Texas Plain
6 occurrence records in Central Texas (GBIF).
Can you buy it?
Also grows here — hard to find. Native and recorded growing in Central Texas, but not on the grower stock lists we read. Sourcing varies: some are stocked widely, others you will have to hunt for.