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Capsicum annuum

Scientific name: Capsicum annuum L.
Synonym: Capsicum frutescens L.
Botanical family: SOLANACEAE

Vernacular names

(In territories with significant traditional TRAMIL use)

Dominican Republic:

  • ají caribe

St Vincent and Grenadines:

  • pepper bush

Haiti:

  • piman caraïbe
  • piman zwézo

Other vernacular names

Botanical description

Annual shrub densely branching.  Leaf with thin petiole, either single or in pairs, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, with acuminate tip; flowers solitary or two or moreper node, 5-petals, whitish-green or whitish-yellow; fruit 1.5- 3.5 cm in diameter, ellipsoid-lanceolate or lanceolate with acute tip, crinkled, red, green, yellow or orange; seeds cream or yellowish.

Voucher(s)

Jiménez,17,JBSD Balland,033,JBSD


Pharmacopoeia

Ed.2

References

Disclaimer

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