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Varietà:
Miscucho Colorado

 
Specie:
Capsicum chinense Jacq.

 
Sinonimi:
PI 152225

 
Origine:
Perù, Sud America

Tipologia:
habanero, ornamentali, tradizionali

Piccantezza:
Molto alta (200.000 SHU)

Frutto:
Rosso

Cromosomi:
24

 

I semi provengono dalla banca semi USDA.

200.000 SHU

0 SHU 2.200.000 SHU



C.chinense

PI 152225
Miscucho colorado

As the acronim PI denote, this is a plant from seeds of USDA, the US seeds bank.
It's a variety from Peru'.
While "colorado" means red in Spanish, I can't find a translation for the word miscucho
I choose it among all the varieties available on the seed bank, because I wish to verify if it's in some way linked with Cajamarca; now I'm almost sure it's an ancestral form of that beautiful variety
As you can notice, I put a question mark after Capsicum chinense, because even if the whole plant looks like a Capsicum chinense, flowers are quite strange and are intermediate between annuum and chinense.
Maybe it's a cross between the two species, as Cajamarca itself seems to be.
Plant grow up to 1 m and produces a fairly good number of pods maturing from light green to bright red, with nice purple streaks.
Leaves

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Flowers

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Pods

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Nice color variations

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