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  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Maples, Mangos, Mahogany, Citrus, and Allies
  6. Cashew Family
  7. Peppertrees
  8. Peruvian Pepper Tree
  9. Supports

What Peruvian Pepper Tree supports

28 native animals
supported in the US
6 caterpillars 19 food 3 flowers

Caterpillars All

6 native moths and butterflies raised on it, most recorded first.

  • Tropical Greenstreak Cyanophrys herodotus
  • Western Tussock Moth Orgyia vetusta
  • Ceanothus Silk Moth Hyalophora euryalus
  • Dwarf Tawny Wave Cyclophora nanaria
  • Calleta Silkmoth Eupackardia calleta
  • Oslar's Imperial Moth Eacles oslari

Plant eaters All

19 native animals that feed on it, most recorded first.

  • Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla cedrorum
  • American Robin Turdus migratorius
  • Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
  • Western Bluebird Sialia mexicana
  • California Ground Squirrel Otospermophilus beecheyi
  • Red-breasted Sapsucker Sphyrapicus ruber
  • Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel Sciurus niger
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Flower visitors All

3 native pollinators and other flower visitors, most recorded first.

  • Spotted Cucumber Beetle Diabrotica undecimpunctata
  • Yellow-faced Bumble Bee Bombus vosnesenskii
  • Monarch Danaus plexippus

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