Rutaceae
Kauai prickly-ash
Zanthoxylum kauaense
- Family
- Rutaceae
- Genus
- Zanthoxylum
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Kauai prickly-ash, Kauai pricklyash
Synonyms
- Fagara glandulosa Engl.
- Fagara kauaensis (A.Gray) Engl.
- Fagara mauiensis (H.Mann) Engl.
- Fagara multiflora Engl.
- Fagara multifoliolata O.Deg. & Skottsb.
- Fagara semiarticulata (H.St.John & Hosaka ex O.Deg.) O.Deg.
- Fagara skottsbergii O.Deg. & I.Deg.
- Zanthoxylum glandulosum Hillebr.
- Zanthoxylum hillebrandii P.G.Waterman
- Zanthoxylum hillebrandii var. hiloense (Sherff) H.St.John
- Zanthoxylum kauaense var. kohalanum (Sherff) H.St.John
- Zanthoxylum kauaense var. tenuifolium (O.Deg. & Sherff) H.St.John
- Zanthoxylum maviense H.Mann
- Zanthoxylum maviense var. cranwelliae (Skottsb.) H.St.John
- Zanthoxylum maviense var. kaalanum (Sherff) H.St.John
- Zanthoxylum maviense var. lanaiense (Sherff) H.St.John
- Zanthoxylum maviense var. maunahuiense (Sherff) H.St.John
- Zanthoxylum molokaiense B.C.Stone
- Zanthoxylum semiarticulatum H.St.John & Hosaka ex O.Deg.
- Zanthoxylum skottsbergii (O.Deg. & I.Deg.) H.St.John
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Tree
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Hawaii: native
Photos

Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.