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Capsicums are a frost and cold tender EVERGREEN PERENNIAL that is often grown as an annual, reaching a height of 1m. Prefers growing in a moist well-drained soil in full sun. White flowers are followed by small, tapering fruits (3cm) often two or three, at a node. The fruits are very pungent (100,000 – 225,000SHU).
Used fresh as a condiment or roasted, dried, or canned. Peppers are often used fresh in salads, or cooked into pasta sauces, marinades, made into hot sauces etc. They are very high in vitamin C and other vitamins and minerals making them highly nutritive. It is mostly the very pungent cayenne peppers that are used medicinally.
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| Latin Name | (Capsicum annuum 'Bird's Eye') |
