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Capsicum frutescens 'Tabasco'

(Tabasco Chile Pepper)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Tabasco Chile Pepper

Description

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Family Solanaceae

Herbs, shrubs , small trees , or climbers . Stems sometimes prickly, rarely thorny; hairs simple , branched, or stellate , sometimes glandular . Leaves alternate, solitary or paired , simple or pinnately compound , without stipules; leaf blade entire , dentate , lobed , or divided . Inflorescences terminal , overtopped by continuing axes, appearing axillary , extra-axillary , or leaf opposed, often apparently umbellate , racemose, paniculate , clustered, or solitary flowers, rarely true cymes, sometimes bracteate . Flowers mostly bisexual , usually regular, 5-merous, rarely 4- or 6-9-merous. Calyx mostly lobed. Petals united . Stamens as many as corolla lobes and alternate with them, inserted within corolla, all alike or 1 or more reduced; anthers dehiscing longitudinally or by apical pores . Ovary 2-5-locular; placentation mostly axile ; ovules usually numerous . Style 1. Fruiting calyx often becoming enlarged, mostly persistent . Fruit a berry or capsule. Seeds with copious endosperm; embryo mostly curved .

About 95 genera with 2300 species: best represented in western tropical America, widespread in temperate and tropical regions ; 20 genera (ten introduced ) and 101 species in China.

Some species of Solanaceae are known in China only by plants cultivated in ornamental or specialty gardens: Atropa belladonna Linnaeus, Cyphomandra betacea (Cavanilles) Sendtner, Brugmansia suaveolens (Willdenow) Berchtold & Presl, Nicotiana alata Link & Otto, and Solanum jasminoides Paxton.Zhi-Yun Zhang, Anmin Lu & William G. D'Arcy "Solanaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 300. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Genus Capsicum

Shrubs or annual or perennial herbs; pubescence of simple hairs . Stems branched. Leaves solitary or paired , petiolate ; leaf blade simple, entire or sinuate . Inflorescences solitary or few-flowered clusters at branch forks or leaf axils ; peduncle absent. Flowers nodding or erect , actinomorphic . Pedicel erect or nodding. Calyx broadly campanulate to cup-shaped, denticulate , sometimes slightly enlarged. Corolla white, blue, or violet, campanulate or rotate, divided halfway or more. Stamens inserted near distal end of corolla tube ; filaments slender; anthers yellow or purplish, ovoid , dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary 2- (or 3) - locular ; ovules numerous . Style slender; stigma small, capitate. Fruit a moist berry, sometimes large, erect, nodding, or reflexed . Seeds yellowish, discoid ; embryo coiled, subperipheral.

About 25 species: all in South America, two or three cultivated and naturalized worldwide; one species in China."Capsicum". in Flora of China Vol. 17 Page 313. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Physical Description

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 24-36" tall.

Biology

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Growth

Culture: Space 18-24" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 7.8

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Taxonomy

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Similar Species

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Members of the genus Capsicum

There are approximately 2524 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

C. 'Big Boy' · C. 'Chilly Chili' F1 hybrid · C. 'Explosive Blast' (Explosive Blast Ornamental Pepper) · C. abbreviatum · C. abyssinicum · C. aggregatum · C. albescens · C. angulosum · C. angustifolium · C. annum (Patio Pepper) · C. annum 'Mixed Sweet Peppers' · C. annum var. Black Pearl (Black Pearl Pepper) · C. annum var. Glabriusculum (Bird Pepper) · C. annuum (African Birdseye Chile Pepper) · C. annuum '4 Star' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Abchazskij Ostruyi' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Abeytas' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'AC 635' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Acapulco' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Acapulu' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ace' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Achar' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Achari' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Aci Sivri' (Aci Sivri Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Aconcagua' (Frying Pepper) · C. annuum 'Adele' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Admiral' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Adriatico' (Sweet Pepper) · C. annuum 'Affinity' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Afghan' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'African Pequin' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Agco' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Agriset 4001' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Agriset 4002' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Agroncagua' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Agua Blanca' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Aji Cereza' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Aji Crystal' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Aji Reno' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Aji Rojo' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Aji Rurrenabaque' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Aladdin' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Albatross' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Albino Bullnose' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Albino' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Alborado' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Alcalde' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Alexandra' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Alice Favorite' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Alliance' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Alma Paprika' (Hungarian Apple Pepper) · C. annuum 'Almapaprika' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Alpha' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Altamira' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Amando' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Amarillo Royale' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Amethyst' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Amigo' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Amish Pimiento' (Sweet Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ammazzo' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Anaheim College 64' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Anaheim Mild' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Anaheim Super' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Anaheim TMR 23' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Anaheim TMR 24' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Anaheim TMR' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Anaheim' (New Mexico Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho 101' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho 211' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Arriero' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Gigantia' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Granada' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Improved' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho L' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Mexican Large' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Mulato' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Ranchero' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Real' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Red' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Rojo' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho San Luis' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho San Martin' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Super' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Sweet' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ancho Villa' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Andor' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Andrea' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Andy' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Angel' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Annie Ornamental' (Ornamental Pepper) · C. annuum 'Announce' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Antohi Romanian' (Sweet Pepper) · C. annuum 'Antonio' (Bell Pepper) · C. annuum 'Apache' (Ornamental Pepper) · C. annuum 'Api' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Apple' (Sweet Pepper) · C. annuum 'Aquiles' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Arabian Slim' (Arabian Slim) · C. annuum 'Areya' (Hot Pepper) · C. annuum 'Ariane' (Bell Pepper)

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Last Revised: 2008-10-03