Small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits.
She was dressed in all black and had henna tattoos covering her hands, and even though she was American , peppered her speech with British colloquialisms.
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My mother had taken my hand and was leading me to a big gray Plymouth parked under a street lamp beside a peppercorntree.
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It was a small space under two peppercorntrees.
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Happy to take a break himself, Sandy waited until she was rested, and they resumed their walk towards the straggling peppercorntrees.
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I have seen photographs of Californiapeppertrees in sunlight.
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So he made it the business of his life to tend Princess Pepperina, for such the maiden informed him was her name.