Zanthoxylum fagaraSarg.

lime pricklyash

WFO wfo-0000429502 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Zanthoxylum fagara, photographed by Sula Vanderplank
fig. a Sula Vanderplank, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-22 / obs. 191484366
Zanthoxylum fagara, photographed by Casey H. Richart
fig. b Casey H. Richart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194520780
Zanthoxylum fagara, photographed by Casey H. Richart
fig. c Casey H. Richart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194520933
Zanthoxylum fagara, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. d Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184593587
Zanthoxylum fagara, photographed by Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）
fig. e Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184587494
Zanthoxylum fagara, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. f Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176614761
Zanthoxylum fagara, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. g Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174086191
Zanthoxylum fagara, photographed by Reid Hardin
fig. h Reid Hardin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174084928

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Native range 38 botanical countries

Regions where Zanthoxylum fagara is native: Florida, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Texas, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Galápagos, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Turks-Caicos Is., Uruguay, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles FloridaMexico CentralMexico GulfMexico NortheastMexico NorthwestMexico SoutheastMexico SouthwestTexasArgentina NortheastArgentina NorthwestBoliviaBrazil NorthBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastBrazil West-CentralColombiaCosta RicaCubaDominican RepublicEcuadorEl SalvadorGuatemalaHaitiHondurasJamaicaNicaraguaPanamáParaguayPeruTrinidad-TobagoUruguayVenezuela BahamasGalápagosTurks-Caicos Is.Venezuelan Antilles
Native distribution of Zanthoxylum fagara, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Argentina Northeast AGE SOUTHERN AMERICA
Argentina Northwest AGW
Bahamas BAH
Bolivia BOL
Brazil North BZN
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Brazil West-Central BZC
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Cuba CUB
Dominican Republic DOM
Ecuador ECU
El Salvador ELS
Galápagos GAL
Guatemala GUA
Haiti HAI
Honduras HON
Jamaica JAM
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Paraguay PAR
Peru PER
Trinidad-Tobago TRT
Turks-Caicos Is. TCI
Uruguay URU
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA
Florida FLA NORTHERN AMERICA
Mexican Pacific Is. MXI
Mexico Central MXC
Mexico Gulf MXG
Mexico Northeast MXE
Mexico Northwest MXN
Mexico Southeast MXT
Mexico Southwest MXS
Texas TEX

Not drawn on the map: Mexican Pacific Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 131 in flower of 399 examined

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Zanthoxylum fagara observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 131 of 399 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 36 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Fagara affinis (Kunth) Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Fagara culantrilo (Kunth) Schult.
  • Fagara culantrilo var. continentalis Krug & Urb.
  • Fagara culantrilo var. insularis Krug & Urb.
  • Fagara fagara Small
  • Fagara hiemalis Engl.
  • Fagara lentiscifolia Humb & Bonpl. ex Willd.
  • Fagara nigrescens Urb. & Ekman
  • Fagara nigrescens R.E.Fr.
  • Fagara peckoltiana (Engl.) Engl.
  • Fagara pterota L.
  • Fagara pterota var. guarantica Chodat & Hassl.
  • Fagaras fagara Kuntze
  • Pterota fagara Crantz
  • Schinus fagara L.
  • Zanthoxylum affine Kunth
  • Zanthoxylum aguilarii Standl. & Steyerm.
  • Zanthoxylum atoyacanum Lundell
  • Zanthoxylum atratum Alain
  • Zanthoxylum culantrilo Kunth
  • Zanthoxylum culantrilo var. paniculatum Engl.
  • Zanthoxylum fagara subsp. lentiscifolium (Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.) Reynel ex C.Nelson
  • Zanthoxylum fagara var. fagara
  • Zanthoxylum friesii P.G.Waterman

and 12 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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