pepper-tree

“Corn and Peruvian pepper-tree berries were used to make the beer, which was drunk from elaborate beakers up to half a gallon in volume.”

Who Invented Beer? | Impact Lab 2006

These boxes were divided into three compartments on the inside, one for betel-nut, one for the lime to be smeared on the betel, and one for the leaves of the pepper-tree, in which the combination of lime and betel is wrapped before being chewed.

A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Florence Kimball Russel

The plant producing pepper is not the pepper-tree so commonly grown for its beautiful foliage and bright red berries in California and Mexico; it is a vine or climbing bush.

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

The pepper-tree is a small bush-like plant, which, when carefully trained, springs to a height of eighteen feet.

The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

These, and the magnolia with its large creamy blossoms, as well as the graceful pepper-tree, are natives of warm, southern lands, while the eucalyptus, or gum-tree, was brought here from Australia.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

It was a bower of roses and pot-plants, and further shaded by a graceful pepper-tree, and made a beautiful frame for the grandmother and the maiden, -- the old dame so straight and vigorous, the girl as roseate and fresh as her name, but each equally haughty and bent upon maintaining their iron independence of the people who had discarded the girl and her mother ere the former had been born.

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

Billy had the horses ready under the shade of a huge pepper-tree; even there the flies were bad enough to set

Mates at Billabong 1911

For as I sit here on the _loggia_ of Peter's house I'm bathed in a soft breeze that is heavy with a fragrance of flowers, the air is the air of our balmiest midsummer, and in a pepper-tree not thirty feet away a mocking-bird is singing for all it's worth.

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

There we sat in that beautiful garden, in that balmy and beautiful afternoon sunlight, with the bamboos whispering and a mocking-bird singing from its place on the pepper-tree, stirring our small cups and saying "Lemon, please," or

The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912

The air was sweet with the mingled breath of June roses, orange blossoms, and the pepper-tree.

The Californians Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902