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Zanthoxylum
Zanthoxylum (prickly ash), a pantropical Rutaceae genus of about 225 prickly trees and shrubs, source of Sichuan pepper (hua jiao) from Z. bungeanum and Z. schinifolium, used over 2000 years in Chinese cuisine and widely in traditional medicine, with more than 400 isolated secondary metabolites.
Zapoteca
Zapoteca (white stickpea) is a genus of about 22 species of mimosoid legume shrubs in Fabaceae, native from the southwestern USA to northern Argentina, segregated from Calliandra by 16-grained pollen polyads and chromosome number 13.
Zelkova
Zelkova, a genus of six relict deciduous tree species in Ulmaceae (elm family), native from Sicily, Crete, Türkiye, and Iran to East Asia; five of six species are IUCN-threatened, and Zelkova serrata is a major street tree.
Zinnia
Zinnia, a genus of about 18-22 Asteraceae species native from the southern US to Argentina, especially Mexico; garden annuals including Zinnia elegans, blooming in every color except blue, not known to be invasive.
Zinnia elegans
Zinnia elegans (garden zinnia, common zinnia), an Asteraceae annual native to Mexico to Nicaragua, is the species behind most garden zinnia cultivars, grown worldwide for cut flowers despite mildew and leaf spot susceptibility.
Ziziphus
Ziziphus Mill., a genus of about 74-100 spiny shrubs, climbers, and trees in Rhamnaceae (Rosales), native from Africa and Asia to Australia; includes the cultivated jujube Ziziphus jujuba and Indian jujube Z. mauritiana.
Ziziphus mauritiana
Ziziphus mauritiana (Indian jujube, ber, Chinee apple) is a spiny Rhamnaceae tree to 15 m native from Sahel Africa to Australia, grown for edible red drupes, drought tolerant, IUCN Least Concern, but an invasive thicket-forming weed in northern Australia.
Ziziphus mistol
Ziziphus mistol (mistol; accepted name Sarcomphalus mistol) is a spiny Chaco fruit tree of Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina, with sweet 1.5 cm drupes used in bolanchao, arrope, and folk medicine; flavonoid-rich, IUCN Data Deficient.
Ziziphus spina-christi
Ziziphus spina-christi, the Christ's thorn jujube or sidr, is a spiny Rhamnaceae tree native from Mauritania to Pakistan, cold-limited, drought-hardy, and used for food, fodder, timber, and traditional medicine.
Zosima
Zosima is a small genus of perennial herbs in the carrot family, Apiaceae, established in 1814 and native from the eastern Mediterranean to Xinjiang and western India.
Zygophyllaceae
Zygophyllaceae R.Br., the creosote-bush family, is an order-level family (Zygophyllales) of arid-adapted trees, shrubs, and herbs with about 20 to 27 genera and 200 to 285 species, sister to Krameriaceae, including Zygophyllum, Guaiacum, Tribulus, and Larrea.
Zygophyllum
Zygophyllum L. (synonym Tetraena in part) is a genus of about 128 accepted succulent shrubs in Zygophyllaceae, native from Macaronesia and Africa to Mongolia, India, Mexico, and Chile, adapted to drought and salinity and used in traditional medicine.