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Schinus terebinthifolius
BRAZILIAN PEPPERTREE
Not native to Florida
Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council: Category I designation
This plant is an invasive exotic that is altering native plant communities by displacing native species, changing community structures or ecological functions, or hybridizing with natives.
This species should never be planted (many with this designation are prohibited by law), and generally should be removed whenever possible.
This problem invasive plant is prohibited by state law and should be removed whenever possible by cutting the trunk near ground level and poisoning the stump with an herbicide such as Roundup.
Brazilian pepper has spread through much of south and central Florida and easily overruns natives, becoming the dominant plant if left unchecked.
Schinus terebinthifolius is a member of the Anacardiaceae - Sumac family.
Florida Wildflowers in Their Natural Communities
Walter Kingsley Taylor
Walter Taylor's guide will help readers recognize and identify wildflowers by where they're most likely to be found growing - their natural habitat.This book is the first of its kind for Florida. Taylor provides detailed descriptions and color photos of each community - pine flatwoods, sandhills, upland pine forest, scrub, temperate hardwood forest, coastal uplands, subtropical pine forest, tropical hardwood hammock, and ruderal sites - and of the wildflower species associated with each.
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Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systemic Botany) profile for this species
USDA Plant Profile for this species
Date record last modified:
Jan 29, 2004