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Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum, a chili-pepper variety of Capsicum annuum, is native to southern North America and northern South America. [2] Common names include chiltepín, Indian pepper, grove pepper, chiltepe, and chile tepín, as well as turkey, bird’s eye, or simply bird peppers (due to their consumption and spread by wild birds; "unlike humans birds are impervious to the heat of ...
This is a list of Capsicum cultivars belonging to the five major species of cultivated peppers (genus Capsicum): C. annuum, C. chinense, C. baccatum, C. frutescens, and C. pubescens. Due to the large and changing number of cultivars , and the variation of cultivar namings in different regions, this list only gives a few examples of the ...
Pequin (or piquín) pepper (/ p ɪ ˈ k iː n /) is a hot chili pepper cultivar commonly used as a spice. Pequin peppers are hot, often 5–8 times hotter than jalapeños on the Scoville scale (30,000 to 60,000 Units).
The Capsicum annuum and Capsicum chinense genomes were completed in 2014. The Capsicum annuum genome is approximately 3.48 Gb, making it larger than the human genome. Over 75% of the pepper genome is composed of transposable elements , mostly Gypsy elements, distributed widely throughout the genome.
Chili peppers of varied colours and sizes: green bird's eye, yellow Madame Jeanette, red cayenne. Chili peppers, also spelled chile or chilli (from Classical Nahuatl chīlli [ˈt͡ʃiːlːi] ⓘ), are varieties of berry-fruit plants from the genus Capsicum, which are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for their pungency.
It is a dried and sweet-flavoured type of Capsicum annuum, cultivated in Basilicata since the 1600s. Usually the Senise pepper variety is used for its preparation, for the thin pulp and low water content which make it easier to be dried. [5] It can assume three shapes: pointed, conical or hooked.
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A pimiento or pimento or cherry pepper is a variety of large, red, heart-shaped chili pepper (Capsicum annuum) that measures 7–10 centimetres (3–4 inches) long and 2–3 centimetres (3 ⁄ 4 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches) wide (medium, elongate).