Lime Pricklyash
Zanthoxylum fagara
Lime pricklyash is a thorny, citrus-scented evergreen shrub of South Texas and Florida brush, a major larval host for giant swallowtail butterflies and cover and fruit for wildlife. Drought- and salt-tolerant.
- Family
- Rutaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 8–15 ft
- Spacing
- 8–12 ft apart
- Light
- part shade
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- neutral, alkaline
- Bloom
- January, February, March, April, May, June
- Bloom colors
- yellow, green
- Wildlife value
- pollinators, butterflies, larval host
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen
- Native states
- FL, TX