How long can the rattan pepper tree live?

Rattan pepper tree, also known as rattan pepper, is a kind of pepper, mostly from Yunnan and Xizang area, how many years can that rattan pepper tree live?

First, how many years can the rattan pepper tree live?

In general, rattan pepper trees can live for about 40 years, and if properly managed, they can live up to 50-80 years. The newly planted rattan pepper tree takes about 3 years to blossom and bear fruit, increases in 4-5 years, and begins to bear a large amount of fruit 10 years later.

What's the difference between rattan pepper tree and prickly ash tree?

1. Leaf difference

The leaves of rattan pepper have 3 to 9 leaflets, 11 vaguely, obvious wing leaves, opposite leaflets, usually lanceolate, 3 to 12 cm long, 1 to 3 cm wide, tip at both ends of the leaf, sometimes broadly cuneate at base, slightly curled to the back after drying, and slightly wrinkled. The leaves of Zanthoxylum bungeanum have 5 to 13 leaflets, the leaf axis usually has narrow wings, the leaflets are opposite, sessile, ovate, elliptic, the base is sometimes round, 2 to 7 cm long, 1 to 3.5 cm wide, and the leaf margin is denticulate.

2. Flower difference

Rattan pepper inflorescence subaxillary or growing at the top of lateral branches at the same time, 2 to 5 cm long, with about 30 small flowers in inflorescence; prickly ash inflorescence terminal or apical growth of lateral branches, tepals 6 to 8, yellowish green.

3. Fruit difference

The fruit of rattan pepper is purplish red with a few slightly raised oil spots; the fruit of Chinese prickly ash is purplish red with petals 4 to 5 mm in diameter and scattered with slightly convex oil spots.

4. Fruit difference

Rattan pepper is widely used in industry, rarely used for food, mainly used in the manufacture of preservatives, various lubricants and soaps, but other parts can be used medicinally; pepper can remove fishy smell, drive cold, increase appetite, promote blood circulation and strengthen human immunity, as well as a certain effect of lowering blood pressure.