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Schinus terebinthifolia
Schinus terebinthifolia
Raddi
Common Name:
Brazilian Pepper, Christmas Berry Tree
Family:
Anacardianaceae
Habit:
Schinus terebinthifolia
grows as a large shrub to tree to 8 meters in height with peeling, scaly bark. The pinnately compound leaves are arranged alternately, to 16 cm long with 7- 11 sessile leaflets. The leaflets elongate to oblong, with a notched leaf margin, acute leaf apex and to 5 cm in length.
Schinus terebinthifolia
is dioecious. The incomplete, imperfect, actinomorphic flowers are arranged in panicles in leaf axils. The calyx has 5 green, unfused sepals. The corolla has 5 white, unfused petals. In staminate flowers, there are 10 unfused stamens and a non-functional carpel. In carpellate flowers there are 10 staminodes and a superior ovary with 1 locule and 1 ovule. The fruit is a red drupe at maturity.
Habitat:
Schinus terebinthifolia
grows in Human Altered environments as well as invading Fresh Water Wetlands.
Distribution:
Schinus terebinthifolia
is
NOT
native to the Lucayan Archipelago. It is native to South America. It now grows throughout the northern Lucayan Archipelago as a
Non-Native Invasive.
Medicinal/Cultural/Economic usage:
Schinus terebinthifolia
is not known to be used medicinally in the Lucayan Archipelago.
It
should be removed
from any habitat/location it is observed.
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