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Brazilian Pepper bushes are an ornamental from Brazil that looks like Holly.They produce red berries that birds eat. The birds carry their seeds spreadingthe plant throughout mangrove habitat where the Pepper bush outcompetes themangroves. The red berries are beautiful but toxic; direct contact with themcauses a poison ivy-like rash. (Image credit: NOAA Restoration Center, Mike Devany & Marine Resource Council)