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Sichuan pepper is also available as an oil (Chinese: 花椒油, marketed as either "Sichuan pepper oil", "Bunge prickly ash oil", or "huajiao oil"). Sichuan pepper infused oil can be used in dressing, dipping sauces, or any dish in which the flavor of the peppercorn is desired without the texture of the peppercorns themselves.
Zanthoxylum simulans, the Chinese-pepper, [2] Chinese prickly-ash or flatspine prickly-ash, is a flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, native to southern and central China, Taiwan, and South Korea. [1] It is one of several species of Zanthoxylum from which Sichuan pepper is produced. It is a spreading shrub or small tree growing to 7 m tall.
Zanthoxylum piperitum is harvested in Japan and Korea to produce sanshō (山椒) or chopi (초피), which has numbing properties similar to those of Chinese Sichuan peppercorns. [16] In Korean cuisine, chopi is often used to accompany fish soups such as chueo-tang , whereas the plant's seeds are separated and used to make oil, and the oil is ...
Nightshade vegetables come from the Solanaceae family of flowering plants, which are nutritional powerhouses, packed with vitamins (such as C and K), minerals (like potassium and magnesium), and ...
Fruits including tomatoes, tomatillos, eggplant/aubergine, bell peppers and chili peppers, all of which are closely related members of the Solanaceae.. The Solanaceae (/ ˌ s ɒ l ə ˈ n eɪ s i. iː,-ˌ aɪ /), [3] or the nightshades, is a family of flowering plants that ranges from annual and perennial herbs to vines, lianas, epiphytes, shrubs, and trees, and includes a number of ...
The specimens collected from Changxi have unisexual flowers and bisexual flowers, which are heterosexual plants of the same plant. [2] [4] [5] Hairy Leaf South Chinese Sichuan pepper (variety) var. pubescens Huang in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 16: 82. 1978. The leaflets have coarse, short hairs, which are dark green when dried.
A handful of dried green Sichuan pepper. The fruit and seeds of the plant are used as a spice, timut pepper, related to Sichuan pepper, [13] but less pungent, while the bark, fruit and seeds are used in indigenous medicines in India, Nepal and Thailand. [7] [14] [5] The plant is also a source of an essential oil, Wartara Oil, and the shrub is ...
The plant belongs to the citrus and rue family, Rutaceae. [14] The tree blooms in April to May, forming axillary flower clusters, about 5mm, and yellow-green in color. It is dioecious, [15] and the flowers of the male plant can be consumed as hana-sanshō, while the female flowers yield berries or peppercorns of about 5mm. In autumn, these ...