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> A fair amount of googling didn't turn up an actual answer to
> the
> question, "are Szechuan Peppercorns and Bunge Prickly Ash the
> same
> thing?" so I throw myself on the mercy of the knowledgeable
> folk
> here.



I never heard of "Bunge Prickly Ash" before, but Google quickly
found the following site
http://forums.egullet.com/lofiversio...29130-150.html
which seems to say they are the same, Zanthoxylum bungeanum.

Also see he
http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katz...?Zant_pip.html

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Ken Blake
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