The plant is found in
Guangxi,
Guizhou,
Sichuan,
Tibet, and
Yunnan in China. It is spread across Northeast India, i.e.,
Arunachal Pradesh,
Assam,
Manipur,
Meghalaya,
Mizoram,
Nagaland, and
Sikkim. It is also found Nepal and in
Uttar Pradesh and
West Bengal in India. Much like the closely related
Sichuan pepper (
Zanthoxylum bungeanum), the seed pericarps are used as spices in cooking and have a similar tongue-numbing characteristic. However, the andaliman flavour in cooking has lemon-like notes (similar to those of
lemon grass) and hints of the
aromatic pandan leaf. }} ==In local culture==