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Yuzu (柚子)
Yuzu (柚子, Citrus × junos) is an aromatic acid citrus hybrid from the upper Yangtze, grown mainly in Japan and Korea and used for its fragrant peel and sour juice in ponzu, garnishes, and yuzu baths.
Zamia
Zamia, a New World cycad genus of Zamiaceae (about 80+ species), ranges from Florida to Bolivia; sister to Microcycas, with Caribbean/Mesoamerican origin, weevil push-pull pollination, and high morphological convergence.
Zamia chigua
Zamia chigua (chigua, chigua macho) is a Near Threatened cycad of Zamiaceae from western Colombia's Chocó and Valle del Cauca and Panama, described by Seemann in 1854, with prickly fernlike leaves and a trunk to 2 m.
Zamia cycad conservation and trade
Zamia cycad conservation and trade covers how cycads, the world's most threatened plant group, are protected from extinction and how trade in them is regulated under CITES.
Zamia integrifolia
Zamia integrifolia, coontie or Florida arrowroot (also treated as Zamia pumila), the only cycad native to the United States; a 2-3 ft toxic cycad, starch source, Atala butterfly host, IUCN Near Threatened.
Zamia loddigesii
Zamia loddigesii, known locally as teocinte and camotillo, is a cycad in the family Zamiaceae native from Mexico to Belize, rated Near Threatened by the IUCN.
Zamia obliqua
Zamia obliqua A.Braun, a Near Threatened arborescent cycad (Zamiaceae) from southern Panama to northwest Colombia (chigua, maicito), with 0.5–5 m stems, CITES Appendix II listing, and food use.
Zamia pumila
Zamia pumila (coontie, Florida arrowroot) is a small cycad of the Greater Antilles and, in a broader sense, Florida and the Bahamas; host of the atala butterfly, cycasin-bearing, CITES Appendix II, Near Threatened or Vulnerable.
Zamia skinneri
Zamia skinneri (Warsz. ex A.Dietr., 1851) is an endangered plicate-leaved cycad of the Zamiaceae, native to northern Panama; long confused with related zamias until the 2008 Taylor, Haynes and Holzman revision of the skinneri complex.
Zamiaceae
Zamiaceae is a family of cycads, palm-like gymnosperms with nine genera and about 305 species across sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, and the Neotropics; 62% of its taxa are at risk.
Zamioculcas
Zamioculcas, sole species Zamioculcas zamiifolia, the ZZ plant or Zanzibar gem, is an African aroid perennial from Kenya to KwaZulu-Natal, grown as a drought-tolerant low-light houseplant with calcium oxalate toxicity.
Zantedeschia
Zantedeschia (calla lily, arum lily) is a genus of about eight aroid species in Araceae, native from Nigeria and Tanzania to South Africa; type species Z. aethiopica, cultivated worldwide for cut flowers, poisonous, and invasive in places.
Zantedeschia aethiopica
Zantedeschia aethiopica, the arum lily or calla lily, is a perennial herb in the arum family native to southern Africa, known for its large white spathe.
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.
Zingiber
Zingiber, also called the ginger genus (Zingiber Mill., 1754), is a genus of about 216 accepted species of aromatic rhizomatous herbs in Zingiberaceae, native to tropical and subtropical Asia; it includes ginger (Zingiber officinale), shampoo ginger (Z. zerumbet), and mioga.
Zingiberaceae
Zingiberaceae, the ginger family (Zingiber), is a pantropical family of aromatic rhizomatous herbs in Zingiberales with one fertile stamen; source of ginger, turmeric, and cardamom, concentrated in South and South-East Asia.
Zingiberales
Zingiberales, also known as Scitaminaceae or Zingiberiflorae, is an order of pantropical monocot flowering plants in eight families, including gingers, bananas, and cannas, totaling about 2500 species and yielding crops like ginger and banana.
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.
Ziti
Ziti (from Italian zita, bride/bridegroom) is a smooth, straight-cut tubular pasta from southern Italy, tied to Neapolitan wedding traditions and the Italian-American baked ziti casserole; thinner-walled and square-cut versus penne's angled, thick-walled tubes.
Zizania
Zizania (wild rice) is a genus of four aquatic grass species in the rice tribe Oryzeae, native to North America and East Asia. Z. palustris is cultivated as a grain; Z. latifolia yields the vegetable Jiaobai via Ustilago esculenta infection.
Zizania latifolia (菰)
Zizania latifolia (菰), Manchurian wild rice or water bamboo, an East Asian perennial aquatic grass grown as Chinese wild rice grain and, via Ustilago esculenta infection, as the vegetable Jiaobai (茭白).
Zizania texana
Zizania texana, Texas wild rice, is a federally endangered aquatic perennial grass endemic to the upper two miles of the San Marcos River, Texas, needing constant 72°F spring flow and threatened by reduced discharge.
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.