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According to UF/IFAS, Brazilian pepper tree is among the most abundant invasive species in the Everglades and covers 700,000 acres of the state.
An ambitious Brazilian urban fruit tree planting project within a green corridor around Niteroi's Piratininga Lagoon is beginning to bear fruit. (AP video shot by Mario Lobão) ...
MELBOURNE, Fla. -- Biologists may soon have another biological weapon in their war against the infamous Brazilian pepper tree: an army of jumping plant lice. These tiny insects — called Calophya ...
One of the jobs of the new division is to deal with invasive species such as the Brazilian Pepper plants which have taken root in the community.
An expedition team has found a rare Brazilian tree that botanists thought might be extinct after nearly two centuries without a confirmed sighting. The Pernambuco holly tree (Ilex sapiiformis ...
What are pepper trees in Andor? Here's what you need to know about pepper trees and where they have appeared in Star Wars.
A lawsuit that would force the city to abide by its own tree protection policy was lost this month, which may make it even harder to stop the removal of other mature, greenhouse gas-trapping trees ...
A: California pepper trees are a better choice than Brazilian pepper trees. California pepper trees are fast growers reaching a height of nearly 40 feet and a comparable width.
Brazilian Peppertree Berry Busting Day, an inaugural event for UF/IFAS, seeks public help to remove over 3 million berries to help invasives research.
A reader is curious about whether or not growing Brazilian pepper, an invasive species, is illegal.
Indigenous activists delivered a Jatoba tree to Norway's embassy in Brasilia on Tuesday, seeking "refugee" status for it in a symbolic protest against the destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest.