Bark is light brown and rough. Limbs are heavy, branchlets light and gracefully drooping. Brightest green of desert tolerant trees. Numerous tiny white summer flowers in drooping clusters from 4-6 inches long give way to clusters of rose colored berries in fall and winter. Subject to root rot diseases in infected soils.
Fruit attracts birds.
Leaves can cause dermatitis. Pepper trees are praised by some, and heartily disliked by others. Gardeners object to the litter, the sale infestation, and the pepper tree's greedy surface roots, yet many people consider it to be a strikingly handsome tree. Located north of Lemon by Gammage Auditorium.