Hercules' club

1. A tree or shrub (Aralia spinosa) of the southeast United States, having prickly, bipinnately compound leaves and large clusters of small white flowers. Also called angelica tree, devil's walking stick; Also called prickly ash.
2. A spiny shrub or tree (Zanthoxylum clava-herculis) of the central and southeast United States, having terminal panicles of small greenish-yellow flowers and pinnately compound leaves. Also called pepperwood, Southern prickly ash.

[After the spiny club of Hercules.]

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States
  Synonyms: American angelica tree, Hercules'-club, Aralia spinosa

Hercules' Club may refer to:

• Hercules' Club (amulet), a Roman and Migration era artefact type.

Plants

• Aralia spinosa (also called angelica tree, devil's walking stick, prickly ash)
• Zanthoxylum clava-herculis (also called pepperwood, Southern prickly ash)

Rock formation

• Hercules' Club or Hercules' Bludgeon, a 25-meter-high limestone column at Ojców National Park, Poland.

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