ZANTHOXYLUM PIPERITUM, Japanese Pepper Tree, Sansho, Aromatic Foliage and Fruits, Plant in a 7cm or 8cm Pot

• An easy-to-grow, drought tolerant, ornamental fruit shrub. If its red fruits are dried, the seed pods can be used as a pepper substitute.
• Remarkable autumn colour. An excellent addition for your patio, for smaller gardens, or border.
• 10cm tall plant in a 7cm square pot. This plant will be ready to be planted out this Spring. Fully hardy and grown outdoors.
• Our plants are securely packaged using our special packaging method.
• All of our plants are propagated and grown on our nursery in the UK and your plants will be freshly hand picked from our benches.

Seeds of this plant are used as a pepper substitute in the Far East but also the fruits and leaves, even its bark are used as a condiment. An unusually thorny shrub with composed leaves and numerous small, red fruits that show a black shiny seed when opening in the Autumn. Zanthoxylum piperitum is a medium sized shrub, easy to grow, drought tolerant and not fussy to soil conditions. The foliage turns a spectacular orange and yellow during the Autumn. Its spines don't die but grow with the plant, becoming a showy feature on the trunk of older plants (with a 4-5cm long base). It is dioecious in theory but we found that most plants will fruit on their own. The Japanese Pepper Tree / Sansho is suitable for smaller gardens, by a wall or in a border, but also good for the patio if grown in a container. It also makes a good bonsai.