Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Woodstock, NSW

Flowers and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Fruit and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Woodstock, NSW

Fruit and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Boundary Bend, Vic

Tree. Photo: Don Wood, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Pepper Tree; Peruvian Mastic Tree

Family

Anacardiaceae

Notes

Introduced tree to 14m tall.  Leaves aromatic when crushed, alternating along the stem, 12-25cm long, composed of 3-35 leaflets, the leaflets 1.5-5cm long, 2-10mm wide, flat to linear, mostly hairless, with pointed tips.  Male and female flowers on the same plant or on different plants.  Flowers white or creamy, with 5 petals, in drooping open panicles arising from the bases of the leaves. Fruit red or bluish pink.  Schinus areira in NSW.

Description and photo (as Schinus areira) in GM Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 466

PlantNET description (as Schinus areira):  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Schinus~areira

Weeds of Australia Biosecurity Queensland Edition description (as Schinus molle var. areira):  http://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/03030800-0b07-490a-8d04-0605030c0f01/media/Html/Schinus_molle_var._areira.htm