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Capsicum

Capsicum is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae, native to the Americas, cultivated worldwide for their edible fruit, which are generally known as "peppers" or "capsicum". Chili peppers grow on five species of Capsicum. Sweet or bell peppers and some chili peppers are Capsicum annuum, making it the most cultivated species in the genus.

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49
accepted species in GBIF
Source: GBIF
3
plants on Plant News
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Other plants in this genus

2 plants
Research across the genus Capsicum 5 articles

Every article on Plant News that mentions a member of this genus, newest first.

Medicinal nightshade herbs may absorb toxic metals from soil

If you grow or forage ashwagandha, black nightshade, or datura, the soil they're planted in matters more than most gardeners...

Bell pepper phytoremediation / medicinal-plants

Pepper seeds ramp up chemical defenses to survive salty soil

If you've ever struggled to start pepper seeds in soil near a coastal garden or one that's been over-fertilized, this research...

Bell pepper crop-improvement / climate-adaptation

Afro-descendant communities keep 36 edible leafy greens alive in Guiana

The greens your grandmother might have called callaloo turn out to be dozens of distinct species, each carrying its own name,...

Capsicum ethnobotany / foraging

Optimisation of seaweed-based biostimulant application to improve bell pepper yield and quality using Topsis-Shannon entropy.

Spraying your pepper plants with diluted seaweed extract at three key growth moments — just after transplanting, when fruits...

Bell pepper biostimulants / crop-improvement

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