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The pepperberry can be used as a fish poison. It can be grown as an ornamental garden plant. Its berries attract birds, [14] including currawongs, that feed on them. It can be propagated from cuttings or seed, and can grow in a well-drained acidic soil with some shade, but is sensitive to Phytophthora cinnamomi.
Cryptocarya obovata, commonly known as pepperberry, white walnut, long tom, she beech or purple laurel, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a rainforest tree with oblong to egg-shaped leaves, the flowers creamy-green, tube-shaped and unpleasantly perfumed, and the fruit a spherical ...
Tasmannia is a genus of about 36 species of flowering plants in the family Winteraceae, and is native to Australia and New Guinea, with one species (Tasmannia piperita) also found in parts of Southeast Asia.
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive.
Brazilian pepper tree. Brazilian pepper is widely grown as an ornamental plant in frost-free regions of South America for its foliage and fruit. In its native habitat it is a melliferous flower [8] and is the main source of food for the stingless bee Tetragonisca angustula, which is an important honey producer in Central and South America.
A pink peppercorn (French: baie rose, "pink berry") is a dried berry referring to three different species; the traditional Baies rose plant Euonymus phellomanus, the shrub Schinus molle, commonly known as the Peruvian peppertree, and the Schinus terebinthifolia (the Brazilian pepper).
Schinus molle is a quick growing evergreen tree that grows up to 15 meters (50 feet) tall and wide. [6] It is the largest of all Schinus species and potentially the longest lived. [ 10 ] The upper branches of the tree tend to droop. [ 6 ]
Tasmannia stipitata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in) and has smooth, dull purplish branchlets. Its leaves are lance-shaped to narrowly elliptic, 50–130 mm (2.0–5.1 in) long and 7–20 mm (0.28–0.79 in) wide, sometimes on a petiole up to 2 mm (0.079 in) long.