Nigeria's chewing sticks: Fagara zanthoxyloides (Orin atata) – Punch Newspapers
Punch Newspapers Sections Published 3 January 2021 Fagara zanthoxyloides Lam is a much-branched tree with dense, dark-green foliage and abundant prickles. These prickles or thorns extend to the leaf stalks and the leaflets midribs. The leaves are elliptic, slightly obovate. The flowers are greenish-white in narrow axillary and terminal panicles usually without thorns. It is always in fruit between July and September every year. What makes Fagara zanthoxyloides(also known as (Zanthoxylum zanthox...
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