Re: [CH] Lemon Drop Question
Brent Thompson (brent@hplbct.hpl.hp.com)
Fri, 08 Aug 2003 17:06:44 -0700
> And the blossom photo of Aji Limon C. baccatum var pendulum?
Sorry, I was rushing to get to an appointment last night and accidentally
sent off my message without including the URL I had found that was so
interesting, namely:
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~thietavu/Chili/C_Tunnistus.htm
To refresh context, here is relevant portion of that message from yesterday:
> 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.
C. baccatum flowers are usually (always?) white and always have corolla
spots, usually yellow/tan/brown like the Finnish web page photo of Aji
Amarillo, but sometimes green as the other example shows. (As far as I
know, corolla spots of C. praetermissum are always green, but corolla color
varies all the way from dark purple to very pale purple or even pinkish,
perhaps even white, maybe).
C. chinense flowers never have corolla spots, and they look just like
flowers of C. annuum, though never as large as the larger/largest-flowered
types of C. annuum, and maybe slightly greenish in some cultivars (though
this greenish color is a lot more common in C. frutescens selections than
in selections of C. chinense).
--- Brent