1, the family is different
The morning glory pepper is a perennial semi-woody plant of the genus pepper in the family of Solanaceae, often cultivated as an annual; its plant height of 30 cm ~ 60 cm, more branches, erect stems, simple leaves alternate; flowers white, flowering in early May - the end of July, fruit clusters born at the end of the branch, the flavor with the green pepper.
Chili pepper, alias: cow horn pepper, long pepper, vegetable pepper, lantern pepper, Latin name: Capsicum annuum L., for the Magnolia, Solanaceae, chili pepper genus of annual or limited perennial herbs. Stem nearly glabrous or puberulent, branching slightly zigzag folded.
2, different characteristics
Pepper plant body more dichotomous branches. Leaves are 4-7 centimeters long, ovate. Flowers are often borne singly between the bifurcation, the pedicel is erect, the flower is slightly drooping, the corolla is white or purplish. Fruiting pedicels and fruit are erect, the fruit is small, conical, about 1.5 (-3) cm long, red or purple when ripe, taste very spicy.
Leaves of chili peppers are alternate, the apical nodes of the branches do not elongate and become double or fascicled, rectangular-ovate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, apical part short acuminate or acute, base narrowly cuneate; flowers solitary, pendulous; calyx cupular, inconspicuously 5-toothed; corolla white, lobes ovate; anthers grayish-purple.
3, the distribution of different
Capsicum is native to the tropical regions of Central Latin America, the country of origin is Mexico. In China, it is mainly distributed in Sichuan, Guizhou, Hunan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Henan (Xichuan County), Jize County in Hebei Province and Toketo County in Inner Mongolia.
The Chaotian pepper is cultivated in most parts of China, with a large cultivated area in Guangxi and Hebei, followed by Guizhou, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Tianjin, Anhui, Shandong, and Inner Mongolia, and also cultivated in Sichuan, Hunan and other provinces and cities.
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