…easy access to the top. Zanthoxylum piperitum Zanthoxylum piperitum Zanthoxylum simulans is a smaller tree and not quite as loaded with (as yet unripe) seed as in previous years. Easier…

…and opening to reveal black seeds as you can see here. My hands smelt strongly of pepper after the seed gathering for Asia. Zanthoxylum piperitum Zanthoxylum piperitum Zanthoxylum piperitum One…

…ripe peppers and nasty prickles. Zanthoxylum coreanum Zanthoxylum coreanum Zanthoxylum coreanum Zanthoxylum piperitum var. inerme with a few rather different peppers and attractive yellow autumn colours just starting. Zanthoxylum piperitum…

…after the 2 droughts. Rhododendron hunnewellianum Agathosma pulchella full of new growth and flowers. Agathosma pulchella Zanthoxylum piperitum with tiny yellowish flowers and dark coloured new growth. Zanthoxylum piperitum Stachyurus…

…velvety indumentum. Also masses of seed collected from Zanthoxylum simulans also in the main clearing in Forty Acres (but none on the nearby Zanthoxylum piperitum which is much smaller growing)….