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
Flowers
Pods
Nice color variations