Re: [CH] Lemon Drop Question
Love2Troll (Love2Troll@kc.rr.com)
Thu, 7 Aug 2003 19:35:50 -0500
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