Re: [CH] Chile-Heads Digest V8 #424
Cameron Begg (begg.4@osu.edu)
Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:35:18 -0400
Hi C-H's,
Mary-Anne wrote:
>I made the comment chiles in India weren't Cayenne. Well, it was pointed out
>to me that they all are. Well, what I was trying to say was they aren't our
>common cayenne we have in the US of A.
I don't think anyone is right or wrong here. Most of the chiles grown
in India are C. annuum, which as we know interbreed so fast it's
almost impossible to keep a particular cultivar "pure" without taking
to extreme precautions. People call them all "cayennes" because they
mostly look like cayennes. Some, such as the Lal Mirch (red pepper)
that M-A mentioned are smooth skinned but still the same sort of size
and shape as cayennes. This year I grew the "long" peppers that she
mentioned and they also look like large cayennes.
>Any input of other Indian Chiles greatly appreciated. Thai as well!
Dundicut peppers (C. chinense) are widely used in Pakistan and so I
would be surprised if they were not also to be found in India. These
are clearly NOT cayennes!
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Regards, Cameron.