Pepper Tree

Pepper tree may refer to:

  • Trees in the Schinus genus
  • Macropiper excelsum, Kawakawa a small tree endemic to New Zealand
  • Two species of the Pseudowintera genus, also known by the Māori name of Horopito

Famous quotes containing the words pepper and/or tree:

    “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper;
    A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.
    If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,
    Where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?”
    —Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers (l. 1–4)

    “The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha,
    It held the shivering, the shaken limbs,
    Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)