Capsicum
Capsicum annuum
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Capsicum annuum
- Group
- Eudicots
- Order
- Solanales
- Family
- Solanaceae
- Continent
- North America, South America
- Habitat
- Fields, Gardens
- Form
- Herb
- Leaves
- Shed in winter
- Flower colour
- White
- Blooms in
- Summer
- Use
- Food, Spice
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- Birds cannot feel the burning of chilli, so they eat the fruits and spread the seeds.
- The Scoville scale for the hotness of peppers is named after the pharmacist who devised it in 1912.
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- Tomato
Solanum lycopersicum
- Potato
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q1380 · All plants · All entries