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Category: Capsicum Botany

Capsicum Botany, Chiltepin

Aztec History and the Chiltepin

The history of the Aztecs – or at least the historiography in […]

Capsicum Botany

Why the Smoke of Burning Chilli Makes You Cough

If you know hardly anything about chile peppers, you know they are […]

Pepper Pungency Scale
Chilli Misconceptions, Capsicum Botany

Not “How Hot Is It?,” but: How Is the Heat?!

One of the things that made me get deeper into “chilli cuisine” […]

Capsicum Botany

Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin: Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis

1770-1776, Vindobonae : Typis Leopoldi Joannis Kaliwoda It is this work that […]

Capsicum Botany

Köhler, Franz Eugen: Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen

1887: Gera-Untermhaus This work only contains one depiction of “paprika”, but it […]

Capsicum Botany

Anton Fingerhuth: Monographia Generis Capsici

1832, Arnz & Comp: Düsseldorpii The Lower Saxon State and University Library […]

Capsicum Botany

Capsicum: Early Botanical Texts on Capsicum

The story of confusion about the correct botanical classification of Capsicum mirrors […]

Capsicum Botany

Capsicum: The Truth of Pod Types

[My apologies for just how much this post needs updating…]

Capsicum Botany

Capsicum: The Domesticated Species

Botanically, the classification of plants follows the format of genus, species, and […]

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