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pepper and the long bird-pepper. Taxanomic uncertainty persists
with some recent authors listing the aviculare variety as a synonym
of glabrisculum (ITIS n.d.), while others place aviculare under
glabrisculum.
NATURAL RANGE: Southern Arizona, southern Texas, and southern Florida
through Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panama and into Colombia and
the Bahamas, cultivated and naturalized elsewhere
REFERENCES: Alcorn 1984, Andrews 1995, Andrews 1998, Bye 1985, D’Arcy
1987, D’Arcy and Eshbaugh 1974, Eshbaugh 1980, Eshbaugh 1993,
Eshbaugh et al. 1983, Gentry and Standley 1974, Heiser 1969, ITIS
n.d., Kermath (notes), Long-Solís 1986, Martínez et al. 2001, MBG
n.d., Nabhan et al. 1989, Nee 1986, Perramond 2005, Reyes-García
and Sousa 1997, Sauer 1993, Sousa and Cabrera 1983, Stevens et al.
2001, Tewksbury et al. 1999, Torres n.d.
Capsicum annuum L. var. conicum (G.F.W. Meyer) Voss [includes C.
conicum G.F.W. Meyer and perhaps includes C.a. var. conoide
(Miller) Irish, C. conicum Lam. all of which are probably best
treated as C.a. var. annuum conoid cultivar group]
FAMILY: Solanaceae (nightshade or potato)
ENGLISH: cone pepper
SPANISH: coralito, carolito
USES/NOTES: Edible fruits are among the hottest cultivated capsicums.
NATURAL RANGE: Tropical South America
REFERENCES: Duke and Vásquez 1994
Capsicum annuum var. frutescens (L.) Kuntze [syn. C. frutescens L.]
FAMILY: Solanaceae (nightshade or potato)
ENGLISH: bird pepper, goat pepper, red pepper, tabasco, wiri-wiri
PORTUGUESE: comarim, cumarim, malagueta, malaguetinha, pimenta-branca,
pimenta-cumari, pimenta-de-comari, pimenta-de-salão, pimentalambari,
pimenta-madeira, pimenta-malagueta, pimenta-tabasco,
pimentinha, tabasco
SPANISH: ají agujeta, ají arnaucho, ají bravo, ají caballero, ají
caribe, ají chirel, ají coralillo, ají guaguao, ají pajarito, ají
picante, ají tabasco, ajicito montecino, ajillo, arnacucho,
arnaucho, arnauchox, charapilla, chile chiltepín, chile de zope,
chile juipín, chilepete, chilpepe, chiltepe, chiltepín, chirel,
chivato, conguito, coralito, kapur, tabasco
USES/NOTES: Small, typically elongated red peppers are used primarily
in hot sauces. Also grown as an ornamental and for its medicinal
leaf. Taxanomically perhaps the least certain of the Capsicum spp.
NATURAL RANGE: Western Amazonia or perhaps Peru
REFERENCES: Andrews 1992, Andrews 1995, Austin and Bourne 1992, Berg
1984, Duke 1986, Eshbaugh 1980, Eshbaugh 1993, Eshbaugh et al.
1983, Estrella 1991, Guia Rural n.d., Guia Rural 1990, IBGE 1980,
León 1987, OAS 1973, Omawale 1973, Pickersgill 1969, Rehm and Espig
1991, Soukup 1970
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