If you haven't tried
Capsicum baccatum chili peppers just yet, this is a great choice to start with!
Are most other
C. baccatum varieties shade - loving as well?
Also, as
baccatum peppers go, Omnicolor needs very little maintenance and does just well even indoors.
A great variety to open a whole new world about chile peppers if you are not yet familiar with Capsicum
baccatum species.
A great Capsicum
baccatum variety which produces very good yield of red pods with a length around 5 - 7 cm.
The pods are very much like chiltepins, suggesting that this plant represents a very primitive type
of baccatum...
Great baccatum chili pepper variety which has a great, exotic tasting aroma with quite a nice kick!
The pods have very good berry -
like baccatum flavor which works very well as fresh and when powdered.
I think you're a little confused here
as baccatum has nothing to do with this discussion — you probably meant to type «pubescens» there.
In your book, «Peppers of the» World» it's said to be a chinense, but the USDA lists it as C.
baccatum var.
Very
tasty baccatum chili pepper with a nice sweetness and just a medium pungency.
Quite
rare baccatum chili pepper with lot of fruity overtones with it's taste.
A small, very pretty (see the white pods ripening to bright red) and
unusul baccatum pepper that has an unusual, very delicious berry - like aroma and sweetness..
If you have grown 100 or
more baccatums, you still don't have experienced the great diversity of them.
If you are mostly into the aroma and taste, then check out this and
other baccatum chilis as well!
The plant is more compact than C.
baccatums usually are, which makes this perfect variety to be grown anywhere.
Very thick fleshed, heavy, quite large pods with amazing crispy,
juicy baccatum berry - like flavor!
Very crunchy, fruity and
aromatic baccatum variety from Minas Gerails, Northern Brazil.
If you are not familiar with Capsicum
baccatums just yet, this is a great way to get acquainted with this great species.
Fascinating looking quite hot, small pumpking shaped
wild baccatum chili pepper type.
Very
good baccatum variety especially for a beginner grower as it's very easy and gives nice crops even when ideal growing conditions are not available.
A hybrid variety of two amazing
old baccatum peppers — and a very successful hybrid it is, too!
Cayenne pepper, which is now much used at our tables, is the fruit of Capsicum baccatum [actually, Capsicum annuum] of Linnaeus, (Bird pepper) and differs not materially in its effects from that of the species here figured, for which it is frequently substituted.
However,
baccatum only produces sterile hybrids with other species.
Although the heat level to a particular palette is highly subjective and can vary significantly from pod to pod, here is a very rough guide to the reported Scoville heat levels of some of the more common domesticated species and varieties: Species * Chinense above 1 million SHU Frutescens up to 150,000 SHU Annuum up to 100,000 SHU Pubescens up to 50,000
SHU Baccatum up to 30,000 SHU Note that pure capsaicin is a mouth numbing 16,000,000 SHU!
Yet another wonderful chili pepper which belongs to to Capsicum
baccatum species.
The wild gene pool, tightly linked to the domesticate, is designated C.
baccatum var.
Trepadeira Werner Very pretty (see the white pods ripening to bright red) and
unusul baccatum pepper that has an unusual, very delicious berry - like aroma and sweetness..
The pods are very much like chiltepins, suggesting that this plant represents a very primitive type
of baccatum that was (and still is) spread by birds.
We continue to add new content at a record rate: Learn how to grow the
Capsicum baccatum species, here.
One of the great,
great baccatum varieties which are large in size but very very fast to grow and ripen it's pod.
This word, from the Arawaks of the West Indies, was transferred to South America by the Spanish and became the general term there for Capsicums of all varieties, but specifically the species
baccatum.
A fantastic wild variety which is the mother of
all baccatum peppers.
A definite must have for
a baccatum chili lover.
Lemon Drop represents hot, non-sweet, slightly lemon - flavored types of
baccatum peppers (as opposed to sweet, low - heat or only moderately hot «Aji» — type baccatum peppers).
The plant is super prolific and quite large in size, still not too big plant for a C.
baccatum.
Capsicum
baccatum variety with exceptional sweetness.
These large pods are very tasty as you would expect from
a baccatum like this.
Baccatum peppers traditionally only grow in South America, but they are actually the easiest and most successful plants for home growers and beginners in chili hobby.