Schinus molleL.

Peruvian Pepper Tree

WFO wfo-0000435157 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Schinus molle, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. a Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-01-26 / obs. 177322430
Schinus molle, photographed by Diego Carús
fig. b Diego Carús, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199768315
Schinus molle, photographed by Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata
fig. c Juan Carlos Fonseca Mata, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203310649
Schinus molle, photographed by Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez
fig. d Oscar Alejandro Morales Juárez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 195424538
Schinus molle, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. e Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172180674
Schinus molle, photographed by Dave Richardson
fig. f Dave Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191252323
Schinus molle, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. g Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185174331
Schinus molle, photographed by Hugo Hulsberg
fig. h Hugo Hulsberg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173090824

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Flowering n = 255 observations

Peak flowering in Oct, from 255 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Schinus bituminosa Salisb.
  • Schinus molle var. argentifolius Marchand
  • Schinus molle var. huyngan (Molina) March.
  • Schinus occidentalis Sessé & Moc.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.