Sichuan pepper is named after Sichuan people like to eat it. It is also a kind of pepper, but its efficacy is slightly different because of its different origin. ? Zanthoxylum bungeanum is a kind of condiment, which is the mature peel of rutaceae, green pepper or Zanthoxylum bungeanum. When mature, it is purplish red, terminal, spherical in shape, with grooves on the surface and a diameter of about 3-4 mm.
Characteristics of Zanthoxylum bungeanum
Zanthoxylum bungeanum is distributed from the southeast in the north, to the north slope of Wuling in the south, to the coastal areas of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the southeast and to the southeast of Tibet in the southwest. The leaf has 5- 13 leaflets, and the leaf axis often has very narrow leaflets; Leaflets opposite, sessile, ovate, elliptic, sparsely lanceolate. The fruit is purplish red, the diameter of a single mericarpus is 4-5 mm, and there are scattered slightly raised oil spots, with very short awn tips or none at the top; The seeds are 3.5-4.5 mm long. The flowering period is April-May, and the fruiting period is August-September or1October.