1.   As it flows, the phosphorus content encourages the growth of exotic plants, such as cat-tails and Brazilian pepper, which crowd out native vegetation.

2.   Brown picked the Brazilian pepper, an exotic tree that the county encourages people to destroy.

3.   Florida has long battled exotic plants like the melaleuca and Brazilian pepper.

4.   Once woody lots, thick with pine and Brazilian pepper, became a winter landscape, blackened like a film negative.

5.   Sawgrass and other native plants already face an invasion of alien species, including hydrilla, Brazilian pepper and the water-guzzling melaleuca.

6.   Sightings of the Brazilian pepper and the Melaleuca, however, are too much for this group to handle.

7.   The endangered Lake Okeechobee gourd is bounding up a stand of Brazilian pepper, a foreign tree that has overwhelmed huge stretches of native plants.

8.   They include the Australian pine, proud symbol of the town of Gulf Stream, as well as the Brazilian pepper and carrotwood.

9.   Wait until it grows warmer to plant jacaranda, Brazilian pepper and coral trees.