According to anba: Brazil has significantly expanded pepper exports to the countries in the League of Arab States in the first three months of this year.

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By Toluse Olorunnipa, The Miami Herald Jul. 28--Armed with gardening gloves, a pocketknife and a saw, Venise Predestin set out to take on dangerous enemies of the environment: invasive exotic plants.

By Sally Apgar, South Florida Sun-Sentinel May 28--With its winter wealth of bright red berries, the Brazilian pepper tree has earned a merry nickname: Florida holly. But, it's a South American-born assassin wanted by the government.

In a state that spends millions of dollars each year to kill non- native plants that have consumed about 1.5 million acres, it might seem unlikely that scientists would import these invasive species, and even less likely that they would cultivate them.