Prickly Ash

Prickly Ash ( Zanthoxylum americanum) is an aromatic shrub or small tree native to central and eastern portions of the United States and Canada. The plant has pinnately compound leaves with 5–11 membranous leaflets . It has axillary flower and fruit clusters, t he buds are hairy, and the dark green leaves are bitter-aromatic with crenate  margins. The stalked follicles are green and then turn red  through deep blue through black, while the f lowers  dioecious with yellow-green petals.

The prickly ash is cable of producing wand quality wood, and is unrelated to the simarly named ash tree. Not much is know about the wandlore, prickly ash but it was used by James Steward to create Chadwick Boot's wand.