Pink Peppercorn blessed!

June 13, 2026

Pink Peppercorn blessed!

I am Pink Peppercorn blessed! A lot of people do not like Florida Holly/Brazilian Pepper as this plant is very invasive here in Florida. I see it all over the place here in VLE and IRC, all of Florida it seems. What I love about it is that it always has so many nice red berries at Christmas time. You can put them on wreaths, it is very pretty. I found out the past year or so that the berries are actually edible and are really pink peppercorns. So I saved a bunch so that I may dry them out, it has been six months now or so, they are very dried out now, I am processing some, see below, and will then put them in my pepper grinder and try them out. How cool! I love fresh grind pepper! Now, maybe I can always just produce my own pepper for grinding. I have a lot of these plants all around. I see some people and businesses use them as a hedge too, they are always green and nice, they won't die in cold weather like the clusia did this past winter. If you keep the FL Holly/BP cut down and manageable, they do make a nice hedge too, plus the red berries at Christmas time, so festive for sure! And you can even use them as real pepper, pink peppercorns. What a blessing from God!

Read more about pink peppercorns here:

at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_peppercorn

Pink peppercorn - Wikipedia

A pink peppercorn (French: baie rose [bɛ ʁoz] 'pink berry') is a dried berry referring to three different species: the traditional Baies rose plant Euonymus phellomanus; the shrub Schinus molle, commonly known as the Peruvian peppertree; and the Schinus terebinthifolia (the Brazilian pepper).