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 […]
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 […]