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Chili peppers are eaten by birds living in the chili peppers' natural range, possibly contributing to seed dispersal and evolution of the protective capsaicin in chili peppers, as a bird in flight can spread the seeds further away from the parent plant after they pass through its digestive system than any land or tree dwelling mammal could do ...
Capsicum frutescens is a wild chili pepper having genetic proximity to the cultivated pepper Capsicum chinense native to Central and South America. [2] Pepper cultivars of C. frutescens can be annual or short-lived perennial plants. Flowers are white with a greenish white or greenish yellow corolla, and are either insect- or self-pollinated.
The more piquant varieties are called chili peppers, or simply chilis. The large, mild form is called bell pepper, or is named by color (green pepper, green bell pepper, red bell pepper, etc.) in North America and South Africa, sweet pepper. The name is simply pepper in the United Kingdom and Ireland. [11]
Capsicum annuum, commonly known as paprika, chili pepper, red pepper, sweet pepper, jalapeño, cayenne, or bell pepper, [5] is a fruiting plant from the family Solanaceae (nightshades), within the genus Capsicum which is native to the northern regions of South America and to southwestern North America.
Almost foreshadowing this conversation happening decades years later, Chad Smith, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' drummer, said in a 1999 interview about the band’s songs: “Our music should be ...
It got its name from the unrelated melegueta pepper, an African spice from Guinea which is a member of the ginger family. [2] The malagueta pepper is a small, tapered chili that grows to about 5 cm (2 in) in length. It has a range of 60,000 to 100,000 Scoville units.
He said the NFL encouraged Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis to sing live during the band’s halftime show performance but made it clear that Flea, guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and drummer Chad ...
Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at the Ohana Music Festival in September 2019, three months before Klinghoffer was replaced by Frusciante In February 2019, the Chili Peppers began a month-long tour, featuring their first headlining shows in Australia in 12 years, [ 156 ] including their first show in Tasmania , which was briefly halted due to ...