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Get RID OF THIS TREE IMMEDIATELY! It is INCREDIBLY invasive to Florida's native species and strangles everything near it with more pepper...Read More
Plant is highly invasive and highly allergenic. It can not be sold in Florida! I really cant believe anyone would want this as I have bee...Read More
Our neighbor has this tree planted near the street and hanging over our driveway. I HATE, HATE, HATE this tree for the following reasons...Read More
An invasive plant that tackles MRSA...win win. [...Read More
Kennedy Space Center spent over a year trying to remove a grove of Brazilian peppers from a small launch viewing area - using heaving equ...Read More
The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has placed this species on its list of 100 of the world's worst invasive species, an honor it shares ...Read More
This plant is taking over Florida. Any disturbed roadside is infested with it and it can cause severe allergic reactions. Swollen eyes, i...Read More
Grows without restraint here in LA County in So Cal. Very fast grower, but difficult to control. It sprouted up unnoticed behind a shed...Read More
I am going to have to go with a negative on this one ...yes it has a lot of medicinal value ... and it is very pretty... however I have s...Read More
This is exactly what I wanted to hear!:
""On Oct 29, 2007, forceys from Loxahatchee, FL wrote:
We have many of thes...Read More
I wasn't sure whether to go with Neutral or Negative on this one.
I have two of these trees growing on my property, both ...Read More
Every February/March I have had strong alergies but could not pinpoint the source.
We paid someone to remove a grate roots...Read More
They grow everywhere here in Florida. They grow very wide, thick and fast. Heard they are going to try to do an extermination of this pl...Read More
This tree has destroyed my families life. Over last four years it has grown in an over grown lot. Now it surrounds the back yard on oth...Read More
Our neighbor had a large Brazilian pepper tree on the hill behind their back yard that caused no problems until they had it removed. Sin...Read More
Believe it or not this tree is also a problem in our part of the world too (Southern Africa). It has been a declared a category 1 weed in...Read More
I have one growing in my back yard for the last 2 seasons in Las Vegas with no problems. Of course because we only average 4 inches of ra...Read More
I live in Anaheim Hills California and I absolutely abhor these trees. They are very very messy as they leave a ton of small leaves on t...Read More
We have many of these trees growing on our property. How do you Kill them. We have tried to cut them down but they just grow back. HELP!
Brazilian Pepper Tree Schinus terebinthifolius is naturalized in Texas and other States and is considered and invasive noxious plant in Texas.
We had a professional plant service come and take several pepper trees on our property. However, a large one and a small one were literal...Read More
It's not easy to demonstrate what we mean by "invasive" in a photograph so I am submitting a photo to literally show a brazilian pepper c...Read More
Lots of Brazilian Peppertrees grow in my area in South Florida. They are very salt tolerant and wind and storm tolerant, and they repropa...Read More
I had this one growing on the lot line for 10 years.I loved the color and privacy it gave me.Had to cut it back twice a year or as needed...Read More
I feel rather timid adding a positive comment about Schinus terebinthifolius after all the negative ones! Here in Rabat, Morocco, it was ...Read More
There's one of those nasty trees on my slope in Mission Viejo, Calif. I have to get out there every Spring with the brush cutter to whack...Read More
I think we have this tree here in Seal Beach CA in our backyard. It looka a lot like these pictures, especially the white blossom cluste...Read More
The Brazilian pepper tree isn't ALL bad. It is a fast grower, even in poor soil, and casts a dense shade. Green all year, at least in S....Read More
I'm not usually negative about many plants, but this is definitely one of them. It has become a pest in some areas of the Big Island whe...Read More
Horribly invasive and difficult to eradicate
Major problem in south Flordia
This invasive species is also a huge pest in south Texas. It has invaded the banks of our oxbow lakes literally pushing native trees and ...Read More
This is an environmentalist's worst nightmare in south Florida. I don't know which one is the worse of the two, this or the "Punk Tree" (...Read More
The berries are rather pretty but the plant is fairly invasive and birds spread the seeds. Ours came with the house but I would not plant one.
I've lived in Florida, off and on, for many years, and this tree is everywhere in the Tampa Bay Area. I first encountered it as a house-...Read More
This tree is indeed a pest in southern California, too - although not nearly so much as in Florida where it basically lines the highways ...Read More
I live on a cul-de-sac and I'm totally surrounded by these pests. My brother and I have have tried to keep them under control for seven y...Read More
I just have to jump on this bandwagon: this is the fastest growing plant pest. The whole plant reeks of turpintine. I'm not sure if I ag...Read More
I learned the hard way about exposure to sap/leaves on bare skin. Over 2 months ago after cutting back many branches I had a reaction on ...Read More
I wouldn't recommend this plant outside its native lands. It's a species from the Brazilian litoral, growing in sand plains near the sea....Read More
I have been involved in the nursery business in southern California and southern Florida. This plant - more than any other - demonstrates...Read More
This tree is granted very pretty and colorful. It also is of a predatory nature and is crowding out many native species here on the Texas...Read More
No problem in California where it makes an attractive specimen tree. It can't survive in the wild due to lack of rain. It blooms here in June.
As a person working on a federal grant to eradicate this nuisance exotic species in the state of Florida, I can only encourage anyone who...Read More
Brazilian Pepper, Schinus terebinthifolius, is one of the worst exotic pest plants in Florida. It should not be planted nor shoul...Read More