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Trees <br />Melaleuca quinquenervia — melaleuca <br />• Evergreen tree to 100 ft, with slender crown <br />• Whitish, thick, spongy bark sheds easily <br />• Leaves alternate, evergreen, gray -green <br />• Flowers white, in "bottle -brush" spikes <br />• Fruits small, brown woody capsules <br />Melia azederach — Chinaberry <br />• Deciduous tree to 50 ft tall, often in thickets <br />• Twigs stout, with purplish bark <br />• Leaves large, twice or thrice compound <br />• Flowers lilac in large panicles <br />• Fruit a thinly fleshy drupe, yellow <br />Sapium sebiferum — Chinese tallow tree <br />• Deciduous tree to 50 ft tall <br />• Sap milky, poisonous <br />• Leaves ovate with narrowed tips, aspen -like <br />• Pair of glands at petiole tops <br />• Fruit a hard capsule with 3 white, waxy <br />seeds <br />Schinus terebinthifolius — Brazilian pepper <br />• Shrubby evergreen tree to 13 m tall <br />• Leaves alternate, once compound <br />• Leaflets usually 7-9, often toothed <br />• Flowers unisexual, small, white <br />• Fruits bright red small drupes in clusters <br />5 <br />