closeup view of the rough bark of the hercules club tree
Zanthoxylum clava herculis also Z macrophyllum the Hercules Club pepperwood Southern prickly ash A spiny tree or shrub native to the southeastern United States It grows to 10 17 m tall and has distinctive spined thick corky lumps 2 3 cm long on the bark Hercules Club has been used medicinally as a numbing agent for toothaches and is sometimes called toothache tree or tingle tongue because of the numbness of the mouth teeth and tongue induced by chewing on its leaves or bark thus relieving toothache The plant is in the citrus family Rutaceae
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Keywords: corky, medicinal, numbing, rough, rutaceas, shrub, spiny, tree
