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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.
Credit
NOAA Restoration Center, Mike Devany & Marine Resource Council
Display Date
Oct-96
Location
Florida, Broward County, Indian River Lagoon
Collection
Restoration
Community-Based Restoration Program (CRP)
Pepper Buster and Johnny Mangrove Seed