by Rich Blood | Feb 16, 2021 | Blog, Botany, Pepper Myths And Misinformation, Taxonomy, Traveling the World in Search of Peppers
In taxonomy, some mysteries refuse to die. Capsicum arachnoideum was one of them. A name whispered in old papers, a supposed wild Bolivian species with small purple flowers, hairy leaves, and long spider-leg calyx appendages. For decades, it hovered somewhere between...
