There are many types of chili peppers with different appearances, and the following is an introduction to several common chili pepper appearance.

1, vegetable pepper (var.) lantern pepper

The plant is stout and tall. Leaves rectangular or ovate, 10-13 centimeters long. Fruiting pedicels erect or drooping, fruit large, subglobose, cylindrical or compressed globose, more longitudinal grooves, the top truncated or slightly sunken, the base truncated and often slightly concave inward, the taste is not spicy but slightly sweet or slightly peppery flavor.

2, Chao Tian Pepper (var.)

The plant is dichotomously branched. Leaves are 4-7 centimeters long, ovate. Flowers are often borne singly between the bifurcations, pedicels erect, flowers slightly drooping, corolla 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.

3, clustered pepper

Plant up to 1 meter high. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, petiole slender. Flowers are often solitary in the lower branches, and several flowers (up to 8-10 and several leaves together in a cluster) at the top of the branches due to the extremely shortened internodes, the pedicels are thin, erect or obliquely ascending, and the flowers are slightly drooping. Fruiting pedicels stout, erect, berries finger-like or conical, 4-10 cm long, slightly bowed, borne upright on the pedicel, ripening into a reddish color, taste very spicy.

Extended information:

Pepper main value:

1, as an ornamental

Five-color pepper pests and diseases are less, generally for leaf spot disease (available 50% Towbutzin wettable powder 500 times spray) and aphid damage (available 50% fenitrothion emulsion 1500 times spray). Thus, the fruit is often bright, colorful (yellow, green, red, pink, orange), fruit shape (lantern-shaped, eggplant-shaped, pointed, chicken heart-shaped) five-color peppers planted in flower beds, flower mirrors, especially potted plants are extremely popular.

2, as an ingredient

The fruits of five-color pepper can be eaten, seasoning. Its nutritional value is quite high, rich in VA, VB, VC, VD, is a vegetable containing more vitamins in vegetarian dishes.

3, as an insecticide

Can kill slime worms, caterpillars, red spiders and so on. Fresh or sun-dried five-colored pepper 50 grams, add 500 grams of water and boil for half an hour, use its water to spray the harmed plants can be.

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