Umm... And the blossom photo of Aji Limon C. baccatum var pendulum? Perhaps you misread my post? ----- Original Message ----- From: Brent Thompson To: Love2Troll Cc: chile-heads@hplbct.hpl.hp.com Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 7:22 PM Subject: Re: [CH] Lemon Drop Question > Although I am aware of Aji Limon being called both C. baccatum var > pendulum & C. chinense The Aji Limon which is C. baccatum var. pendulum is well known, well documented, and widely available. I have never heard of, and cannot find, any reference to an Aji Limon which is C. chinense, except for the erroneous inclusion on the chinense page at www.bayoutraders.com of Aji Limon with a photo identical to the ordinary C. baccatum Aji Limon, and a German language reference too incomplete (e.g. lacking photos) to have likely lead to any such confusion: http://mitglied.lycos.de/capsicumetc/homepage/sorten/limon.htm One good photo of Aji Limon is on Chile Pepper Institute web page: http://www.chilepepperinstitute.org/Photogallery.htm Or see the photo of "aji yellow" at Cross Country Nurseries web page, since it looks identical and likely is the same. > I don't recall ever seeing pictures of the Aji Limon C. baccatum var. pendulum blossom. Does anyone know where one is? > Pictures of the pod and calyx would be nice too. see references above > And the # of blossoms per node. Per the key I mailed out earlier today, C. baccatum plants normally have one flower per node, though of course more (e.g. two) can sometimes occur, just as with C. annuum and other species which normally have only one flower per node. Most (all?) C. chinense cultivars normally have multiple flowers per node. Here is a very nice web page I just found that has beautiful, clear photos of flowers of several different Capsicum species (and also a fruit of Aji Limon). This page is in Finnish, so I can only guess that the rest of the page has as much interesting and useful information as it seems, but anyway photo labels in English/Latin makes it possible to decipher -- and to facilitate matching labels with photos for people who don't already know what all the depicted flowers are supposed to look like, here are locator annotations: Pimenta Cumari (C. praetermissum) bottom row, left-most Ulupica (C. cardenasii) top row, left-most Tepin (C. annuum var. glabriusculum) bottom row, 2nd from left Aji Amarillo (C. baccatum var. pendulum) top row, 2nd from left Tabasco (C. annuum var. frutescens) bottom row, 3rd from left Quintisho (C. baccatum var. baccatum) bottom row, 4th from left Assam Red (C.annuum var. annuum) top row, right-most Bolivian Rainbow (C. annuum) bottom row, right-most Too bad the photo of C. cardenasii doesn't clearly show the distinctive bell-shape the flower has -- different from all the other Capsicums we know. --- Brent