Schinus polygamus Peruvian Pepper Tree 17. Young trees are upright in habit and with age tend to spread out. Growth rate is moderate. Normally single trunk with handsome dark brown to black bark that is fissured. Leaves are simple, Eucalyptus-like only shorter and broader.
Crushed foliage has a peppermint smell.
Flowers are small, white and somewhat showy in June. Branches weep somewhat and foliage is pendulant somewhat like a willow. For landscape purposes, make good background trees, specimen, espalier, or even tub plants when young. They are frost-tender, but tolerant of many soils and water patterns. As a tree, has a broad, rounded crown.