Brazilian Pepper?

The leaves looks like my Chinese chestnut trees.
Felix

Thank you Bodiggly. I googled it but in the photos I saw it looked like the edges of the leaves on the Brazilian pepper are smoother than mine. Any other possibilities you can think of?

Thank you Felix. The leaves on my picture are directly acrossed from each other. I am having a hard time finding a picture of Chinese chestnut leaves on a stem, but the American chestnut leaves I saw were not directly accrossed from each other on the stem.

That's Brazillian Pepper tree. Pull it out and you'll get an odor of turpentine.

Pulled up one. I have 3 of them. Smelled a little like carrot to me... ??? But it is very small - 6" tall. So I am thinking - not it. But then I found a pic of a Brazillian Pepper tree seedling and boy if that doesn't look like it. I guess the edges of the leaves get smoother as it ages. Thank you Fawnridge. Case closed :)

Here is a link that might be useful: seedling pic

i have this too.. been wondering what the little bugger was!
at first i thought it was a poison ivy type plant.

Please destroy all of the seedlings, youngsters and adults you see in your yard. They are a terrible invasive (Brazillian Pepper) that causes a severe poison-ivy-like reaction in many people. The itching, lesions, weeping/oozing rash lasts for 4 weeks and can leave scars.

It is very hard to kill the trees! We have been fightimg them for 21 years. We have no adults on our property, but every year we have to remove seedlings that the Robins bring to us.

Birds eat the berries and poop out the seeds everywhere. You will see them along powerlines and fences-where birds rest.

A noxious weed that gets HUGE in a hurry.

Lisa

ACK, ACK, ACK!!!! Brazilian pepper for sure! Run away, run awaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!! No, wait! Come back and KILL IT! Oh, the horror, the horror! *shudders for emphasis*

Seriously, they are wretched things, as others have said. Schinus terebinthifolius. Noxious, invasive, irritating...and we brought it on ourselves. One of those plants that was widely used as screening and an ornamental, and will now probably plague us until doomsday!

Hope you don't find any more of them.

Marcia