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Cacadura

Mildly hot 3-4" Ancho-type pepper with good flavor; very productive.

PA RE M 98
Mike Reilly, New Cumberland, PA
from Brazilian exchange student

California Wonder

Sweet bell pepper with moderate set of 3x4" bocky fruits. Commonly grown, non-hybrid variety.

O.S. Excel Seeds

Capastrano Sweet

Moderate set of late-maturing 4x5" blocky, thick, fruits with large depression on bottom side.

WI PE C 94 .... (?) CV Sto 91
Chris Pehoski, Stevens Point, WI
Stokes first lists this variety in 1991

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Cascabella

1½" diameter pendent round, red fruits on 2' tall x 1½' wide plants; thin flesh, good drier.

Originally from package of dry peppers in Hispanic Market; imported by Durango Products, Banner Wholesale Co, Chicago

Chapeau de Frade

C. baccatum; heavy set of 2x2½" bell-shaped, 3-lobed, red fruits on 3+' tall bush; late maturing; very attractive.

NY HE K 99 - CA ME E 97 (listed in 99 YB as CA EV E)
Eunice Messner, Anaheim, CA
'from CA Rare Fruit Grower'

Charleston Hot

3"x.75" blunt-tipped hot fruits turning yellow to orange to red; leaves light yellow-green; would make attractive border plant.

Dennis Schlicht, Center Point, Iowa

Chervena Chujski

Heavy set of 5½x1½" smooth, tapered, red pendent wedge-shaped fruits with curved tip; very sweet, flavorful, and meaty; later maturing than others from this group.

NJ CA J 99 - IA SSE HF 98 - CA CA D 86 (as Pimento Chervena Chujski) David Cavagnaro (Santa Rosa days!) "directly from the villages of Bulgaria"

Chile de Cuscutlan

Pendent 1½x1/3", tapered, orange fruits on 2½' tall x 1½' wide plants; good drier. Very rare old (pre-Columbian) variety from San Salvador-Honduras-Nicaragua region.

PA WE W 00
William Woys Weaver, Devon, PA

Chile Large "Buena Mulata"

Pendent, 2½x2/3" tapered fruits changing from deep eggplant purple to pastel orange to red; plants 2' tall x 1' wide with deep purple stems and purple-white striped flowers; very attractive.

PA WE W 00 - from grandfather's collection

Chile de Seda

C. pubescens; clear yellow-orange 2x1½" pendent, smooth fruits on 4'x4' plants with large, pubescent leaves; fruits meaty and hot.

ENGL PA U 00
Ulrike Paradine, Kent, Great Britain.
from Xalapa, Mexico

Chile Pimento

5x2½" tapered red fruits on 1½' tall x 1' wide plant; slight purple suffusion at leaf nodes.

Collected from Guatemala by Kate Horkman in summer 1999.

Chilhuacle Negro

2" apple-shaped chocolate brown fruits; good dried, but a bit bitter when cooked fresh.

AR BO B 97 .... ? NC LE H 95 - MD ES H 94 - AUSL GA P 92 via Dianne Kennedy, the cookbook author
Paul Gardner, Victoria, Australia

Chilhuacle Rojo

Abundant set of 3" bright red fruits on 3-4' plants; very attractive.

PA WE W 95.
William Woys Weaver, Devon PA
originally collected 1991 from Chiapas State, Mexico

Chiltepe

Fruits green to purple to red, wrinkled, 1-11/2"; pendulous; leaves covered with white pubescence, giving entire plant silvery sheen.

PA WE W 95
William Woys Weaver, Devon PA
collected 1991 from Chiapas State, Mexico

Chiltoma de Nicaragua

3x1½" pendent, wrinkled red fruits

PA WE W 00
William Woys Weaver, Devon PA

Chinda 2

Erect 2x¼" red fruits on 2' tall x 1½' wide plants; good for oriental soups and stir fry.

TAIW BE T 99
Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center, Tainan, Taiwan
Thailand; PBC 743 Originally from Thailand.

Chinese Giant

5x4" blocky, red fruits on 1½x1½' plants.

NJ CA J 00 ... (?) IL DU R 98 - IL KE D 97 - NM HA R 94 - CV TT 92
Introduced in 1900, 1st of the truly giant bells of that period, twice as big as the largest bell of the day by Burpee.

Chinese Multicolor

Erect 1½x3/4" fruits changing from yellow-white to purple to orange to red on 1½' tall x 1' wide plants; petals with purple tips; very attractive and productive.

PA KO J 00 - CV We11
Christopher E Weeks Peppers, Kill Devil Hills, NC

Chocolate Congo Habanaro

C. chinense; 1½x2" wrinkled, chocolate-brown fruits; very hot with strong smokey flavor; moderate production.

AR BO B 98 .... PA KE I 94
Ike Kerschner, Coatesville, PA
seed collected in Trinidad

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Chocolate Scotch Bonnet

C. chinense; pendent 1½x1¼" chocolate-brown, wrinkled fruits on 1½' tall x 1' wide plants; very hot with strong smokey-tropical fruit flavor.

WI NE J 99
from Scarboro, Tobago Mkt, March 1999

Christmas

Identical to Brazilian Rainbow. Not C. chinense; rather a small (1½'), compact C. annum bush with hundreds of upright, conical fruit changing from cream yellow with purple spots to completely red when ripe; very attractive; would make an excellent house plant; same PI # as Brazilian Rainbow.

PA RE M 98 .... (?) PA WE W 96 - IL SW J 95
PI #44641 (441641) from Brazil

Christmas Bell

C. baccatum; 2"x2.5" inflated, bell-shaped fruits. Sweet.

PA WE J 00

James Weaver, Kutztown, PA.

Cili Goronong

C. chinense; pendent 2½x1½' yellow-orange, heavily wrinkled fruits tapering to a point; plants 1½' tall x 2' wide; hot with good smokey-tropical fruit flavor.

MD ES H 99 - MI YA J 96
John Yaeger, Lawton, MI
from Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia

Cili Merah

Moderate set of 5x1" slightly wrinkled, tapered fruits.

MD ES H 99
Howard C. Essl, Bethesda, MD
from Kelantan, Malaysia

Cirolla Sella

C. baccatum; heavy set of pendent 2¼x½" carrot-shaped, deep orange fruits; plant 1½' tall x 2½' wide with small (1¼"x½") leaves; not C. annuum as has green-tan spots at base of petals.

NY BU J 00 - CV Se7
originally from Bolivia

CO 2722

Heavy set of erect, clustered 2¼x½" tapered red fruits on 1½x1½' plants.

TAIW BE T 99 (Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center)
Originally from Peru

CO 4177

C. baccatum; pendent 2x1¼" wrinkled, oval red fruits on 3½' tall by 4' wide plants; immature fruits held erect; very productive.

TAIW BE T 99 (Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center)
Originally from Brazil. The AVRDC name is 157 BGM 1033 Pimenta

CO 5081

C. chinense; pendent 1x2/3" smooth, oval red fruits on 2' tall x 1½' wide plants; fruits with mild smokey-tropical fruit flavor but little heat.

TAIW BE T 99 (Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center)
Originally from Zambia.

CO 5813

C. chinense; pendent 1½x1" smooth, oval red fruits; fruits with mild smokey-tropical fruit flavor but little heat.

TAIW BE T 99 (Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center) Originally from Puerto Rico. Name is Ensalda as its leaves are often used as cooking greens.

CO 5842

C. chinense; pendent 2½x1¼" smooth, blocky fruits turning from green to orange to red; plants 1' tall by 2' wide; pods meaty with mild tropical fruit flavor but no heat.

TAIW BE T 99 (Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center) Originally from Brazil. The AVRDC name is AMA 12.

Coban

½x1", upright, blunt cone-shaped hot fruits on 3' bush; very productive.

CV Na2 94
from Chichicastenanejo in the Guatemalan highlands, traditionally cured over wood fires.

Cochiti

4"x1.5" tapered, bight red, moderately hot fruits; very abundant and early producer on small plants.

CV Na2 94
Originally collected at the Cochiti Pueblo in 1986. Agriculture in this Pueblo has been essentially destroyed by a floodwater and irrigation dam.

Corno di Toro, Red

2-3 foot plants loaded with 6-7" red, elongated fruits

TN JO M 96 .... CV LE 85
Le Marche Seeds International, Dixon, CA
Italian heirloom first offered in N. Am. in 1985

Costeno Amarillo

2x½", pendent, blunt fruits; thin skin; very pretty dried.

NY HE K 99 - CV Na2 -
Listed only in the 1997-8 NSS Catalogue, under Chile Products, where it is described as an 'unusual amber colored chili with a light lemon-citrus flavor and subtle heat. Used to make mole and also great in soups and stews"

Cubanella Sweet

Good production of 5½x2" bright red fruits with squared-off base; rather thin flesh, but sweet with good flavor.

CV Excel Seeds 99 - can trace to Gurney's 1985 catalogue, 1979 Ferry Morse listings

Cumari

C. chinense; Hundreds of erect ½x1/3" bright yellow, smooth oval fruits on 1' tall x 1½' wide plants; hot with strong smokey-tropical fruit flavor; excellent miniature habanaro variety

NY HE K 00 - PA RE M 97
Mike Reilly, New Cumberland, PA
from Brazilian Exchange Student

 
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