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Capsicum carassense

Family
Solanaceae (Nightshade family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
Brazil (SE. Minas Gerais)
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Capsicum carassense is a species of wild chili pepper in the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is a shrub native southeastern Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. It was described by Gloria E. Barboza and Luciano de Bem Bianchetti in 2020, and is treated in the 2022 monograph of the genus Capsicum by Barboza and colleagues.

Where it grows

It is native to southeastern Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, where it grows in a seasonally dry tropical climate.

Other Capsicum plants

Cayenne pepper · Cayenne Pepper · Almapaprika · Cayenne pepper · Ají amarillo · Locoto · Capsicum benoistii · Capsicum caatingae · Capsicum caballeroi · Capsicum campylopodium · Ulupica Pepper · Tova Pepper

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Capsicum carassense by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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