The history of the Aztecs – or at least the historiography in the Codex Mendoza – has a little pointer…
If you know hardly anything about chile peppers, you know they are pungent. Hot. The spiciness goes deeper, though… all…
One of the things that made me get deeper into “chilli cuisine” is that there is something special to it….
1770-1776, Vindobonae : Typis Leopoldi Joannis Kaliwoda It is this work that first described Capsicum chinense/sinense under – and thus…
1887: Gera-Untermhaus This work only contains one depiction of “paprika”, but it is too beautiful not to show:
1832, Arnz & Comp: Düsseldorpii The Lower Saxon State and University Library Göttingen owns a copy of this text and…
The story of confusion about the correct botanical classification of Capsicum mirrors the history of botany itself. So, it can…
[My apologies for just how much this post needs updating…]
Botanically, the classification of plants follows the format of genus, species, and – if relevant – variety/subspecies.