Re: [CH] Need Site with Pics of Praejermissan Chile
The NorthEast ChileMan (thenortheastchileman@attbi.com)
Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:43:55 -0400
Hey Pepperbud,
Did George leave the other list? I thought you & I had a brief discussion on
the spelling? Risa wrote, Snip:I got one of my Praejermissan seeds......
Quoting Brent, Snip:
There is a species of chile named C. praetermissum -- no 'j', no 'n'.
George's handwriting on seed envelopes that I received not the best. But the
best site I have to ID rare stuff is a neighbor of Miss Dewi, Mats
Pettersson & his wife Patricia in Stockholm, Sweden. Between the pictures of
flowers & fruit you should be able to find something to go on.
Start here:
http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/stockholm.html
http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/brazil.html
to get an idea of who they are & their pictures, then
http://hem.passagen.se/habanero/index.html
for an intro to their site, but the "piece de resistance" (knuckles
dragging) is here:
http://hem.passagen.se/habanero/Gallery.html
Have fun exploring his beautiful pictures. If you pick a flower from your
plant & compare it to those & fruit at his site, you might get a match.
Hope this helps,
Paul
Usual disclaimers. I like Dave DeWitt's site, but ain't getting a kickback.
Have had only a few E-mails with Mats, we're working on a seed trade.
Brent,
Where did you get this info? Really good stuff!
Paul
Unfortunately, I have no photos online.
Here is some info to help identify it, though:
Capsicum praetermissum --
Plant size: often large, just like C. baccatum, to which praetermissum is
very very closely related, but small types (of both praetermissum and
baccatum) exist.
Leaves: usually solitary; ovate or elliptic (like all the common
domesticated chile species); usually more hairy than baccatum or
annuum/frutescens/chinense, though less so than C. pubescens.
Flowers: usually two, or one, at each node. (The flowers are beautiful).
Corolla: 5-lobed, purple or purple-edged with green or yellow spots.
Anthers: yellow
Calyx teeth (on fruit): 5
--- Brent