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Anacardiaceae family
Brazilian Peppertree Schinus terebinthifolius
Deer-resistant — Low palatability to browsing deer. Usually passed over, but no plant is truly deer-proof when food is scarce.
Brazilian Peppertree is an introduced perennial tree, found in Hawaii, the lower 48 states, and the Pacific Basin. It grows to 30 ft and blooms Jul in part shade – shade, with red fruit.
USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503) — Fruit/Seed Color / Fruit Persistence — Fruit
Lifespan: USDA’s lifespan scale for trees: short = under ~100 years · moderate = 100–250 · long = over 250. Balsam fir and other short-lived conifers are genuinely short for a tree, not short like an annual.
Height
30 ft
Mature width
≈ 40 ft wide open-grown, the broad end of measured crowns
Spacing
12–21 ft apart from USDA planting density
Spread
None — clumping
Growth rate
Moderate
Growth form
Multiple stems
Lifespan
Perennial · moderate
Foliage
Evergreen broadleaf · coarse texture
Active growth
Year-round
Fruit
Red persists into winter
In the garden
Sources · In the garden
USDA PLANTS (DwCA, Zenodo 17903503) — Propagation Method / Commercial Availability — Propagate by · In the trade
Fruit · approximate season (USDA Seed Period), clamped to after bloom · persists into winter
When to sow · for your area
Sow timing keys off your local last- and first-frost dates.
Species characteristics from USDA PLANTS (public domain) + TRY (CC BY) — general guidance, not a
guarantee for your exact site. Deer "browsing" is documented palatability, not a deer-proof claim.
Named species (a documented Nearctic sample, not exhaustive) from NHM HOSTS (CC0). ✦ = recorded on this exact species.
Species thumbnails re-hosted from iNaturalist — Creative Commons, credited per image (hover for credit). Click any species to see it on iNaturalist. Not exhaustive; many taxa have no openly-licensed photo yet.
Same genus / family, ranked by ecological value — from the PlantKey catalog
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PhotosynthesisDirect fact
A recorded categorical fact: each species is tagged C3 (standard), C4 (heat/water-efficient) or CAM (succulent, night-time CO₂ uptake) — or a facultative combination. We only show a trait card for the noteworthy C4/CAM cases; C3 is the unremarkable majority, kept in the data but not surfaced as a card.
Kattge, J. et al. TRY plant trait database — Categorical Traits Dataset (2012).
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