They find genetic evidence of the pepper trees' first landing in Florida in the 1800s: somewhere near Naples. "We have mostly hybrids now in Florida," Jim Cuda, a University of Florida biologist ...

©Brazilian Pepper Tree. Image by Chiako Saaedi via Unsplash. Imagine a plant so relentless, it can turn a wild, sunlit meadow into a tangled, impenetrable forest in just a few years.

Brazilian pepper tree covers 700,000 ... researchers had to prove thrips would eat only Brazilian pepper tree and wouldn't pose a threat to the native Florida environment before they could get ...

A Windsor resident illegally removed mangrove trees from his Sebastian waterfront property, polluting the Indian River Lagoon ...