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Aci Siuri pepper.

Bako Local

Pendent 5x1" tapered, smooth red fruits on 2' tall x 1½" wide plants.

TAIW BE T 99 (Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center) Originally from Ethiopia. AVRDC accession number CO 5594.

Banos

Showy small plant loaded with upright 2" fruits turning green to yellow to red; would make terrific house plant.


Dan Quickert, Davis, CA
from Banos, Ecuador, 1987 TX SM J 95 ... (?) CA QU D 90

Barbados

C. chinense; moderate producer of very hot 1½x1" wrinkled fruits with smokey flavor

RI HO P 96 (93); from NGS Seed Swap

Beaver Dam

5x2½" tapered, smooth, red fruits; initially erect, pendent when mature; plant 1x1'; mildly hot with good flavor. Brought to Beaver Dam, WI, area ca 1929 from Hungary by the Joe Hussli family

Sue Gronholz, Beaver Dam, WI WI GR S 99

Beiswinger's Bell

Description: Dorothy Beiswenger's favorite bell pepper; 3x4" blocky fruits that ripen red on a 1½'x1½' plant. From Crookston, MN

MN BE D 00

Berbere

3"x1", relatively blocky, hot red fruits. "Pronounced bear-beret, brought by a friend from Ethiopia, turns red, about 6" long x .75" diam. with slight swelling in the middle, very tall plants, bears tremendous crops, very good green or let dry for chili powder when red" Mike Ogbin

WI GR G 96 ... SD KO N 87 - CA OG M 86
Mike Ogbin, Burnt Ranch, CA

Billy Goat

C. chinense; pendent 2x3/4" wrinkled, oval red fruits on 3x3' plant with purple-blue stems; very attractive; fruits hot with characteristic smokey - tropical fruit aroma.

RI HO P 00 - NC LE C 96 - MI WA W 94
William H Walker, Attica MI

Birgit's Locoto

C. baccatum; pendent 2¼x½" elliptical fruits with some wrinkles; fruit changes from light yellow to honey to orange to red; plant 2½' tall x 1½' wide; very attractive.

Ulrike Paradine, Hythe, Great Britain. ENGL PA U 00

Bodé (Red and Yellow)

Red: C. chinense; 2' bush with heavy set of round, ½"-diameter red fruits with dimple on tip; very hot with typical smokey flavor; beautiful and very useful in cooking as small fruit size allows for easier heat calibration of final dish. Yellow: C. chinense; identical to Red Bodé, except fruit dark yellow-orange; smoky flavor perhaps stronger; a real beauty.

PA RE M 98 (97) Mike Reilly, New Cumberland, PA
claimed to be mild in orig. listing! from Brazilian exchange student

Brazil

C. baccatum; pendent 3½x2/3" red tapered fruits on 2½x2½' plants.

MO RI W 00
Dr. W.M. Rizzo, Columbia MO
from Brazil

Brazilian Rainbow

Not C. chinense; rather a small (1½'), compact C. annum bush with hundreds of upright, conical fruit changing from cream yellow with purple spots to completely red when ripe; very attractive; would make an excellent house plant; same PI # as Christmas Pepper (see below)

CA ED L 98 - IL SW J PI #441641 (see Christmas, below)

Brown Aji

C. baccatum; brown pendant 3.5"x1.5" wrinkled fruits. 2.5'x2' plant. Very mild.

CA MY J 00 - OH MI P 95 - CV Enchanted Seeds 94
from Peru

Brown Chinense

C. chinense; wrinkled brown 2 by 3/4 inch tapered fruits, very hot.

James Weaver, Kutztown, PA

Buena Mulatta

Pendent, 2½x2/3" tapered fruits changing from deep eggplant purple to pastel orange to red; plants 2' tall x 1' wide with deep purple stems and purple-white striped flowers; very attractive. From William Woys Weaver grandfather's collection.

PA WE W 00 William Woys Weaver, Devon PA

Buist's Yellow Cayenne

Heavy set of blunt-tipped, wrinkled 3-4"x.75" deep orange, hot fruits; very nice.

From H. Pippin to my grandfather (pre-1945), grows true to the Buist seed catalogue desc. of the 1870's and 1880's. Once grown extensively in southern NJ for market, and probably originally brought to the US via the sugar trade.

PA WE W 96 William Woys Weaver, Devon PA.

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Burkina Faso

2-3", narrow, cylindrical fruits; very crack resistant; long keeper; very early maturing determinate 1½' tall plants; good drier.

MI KL R 00 - from Peace Corps volunteer
Robert F. Klein, Livonia MI

Butan Commercial #4

Description: Pendent, 3-3½" heavily scalloped, flattened red fruits on 1x1' plants; not really a bell pepper but rather a type of tomato pepper; nice flavor. CV, gift from teacher in Butan, Bulgaria

MN TJ J 00
Jim Tjepkema, Clarks Grove, MN

Butan Commercial #8

7-8" long, curved and wrinkled fruits; mildly hot but with great sweet flavor; extremely productive; one of my favorite peppers of 1998.


Jim Tjepkema, Clarks Grove, MN
collected on trip to Butan, Bulgaria MN TJ J 97

 
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