Florida brought in Brazilian pepper as an ornamental shrub; it later infested over 700,000 acres and became one of the state’s worst invasive plants
Brazilian pepper reached Florida in the 1840s as a garden shrub.
It now infests over 700,000 acres, and scientists are testing thrips to fight it.
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