[CH] Chapeau de frade Pepper
The NorthEast ChileMan (thenortheastchileman@attbi.com)
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:02:46 -0400
Hi Matt,
Finally had a few minutes to look into this for you. Ted was right about
the USDA search, Snip:
>From other USDA searches, it appears to be from Brazil and seeds are
>typically hard to come by.
They have them in their database under Capsicum baccatum var. pendulum:
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_site_acc.pl?S9%20Capsicum%20ba
ccatum%20var.%20pendulum
Scroll down to #231 & you'll see:
PI 497974 Chapeu de Frade
Clicking on the # brings you to:
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/acchtml.pl?1392910
If you scroll down to bottom of page, you'll find:
Vouchers for accession
Type: Computer image. Taken by: Jarret, R., USDA, ARS. On: 08/02/2002.
Fruit Image.
Click on Fruit Image & you'll see a very nice picture of it. It does look
like the Bishop's Crown I grew last year except the "lobes" of the Chapeu
are turned down in the USDA picture as opposed to them being horizontal on
the Bishop's Crown I grew.
I do have to disagree about one thing Ted wrote, "and seeds are typically
hard to come by." USDA site reports, Snip:
Availability
Material is available for distribution. The normal amount distributed is 5
seeds.
Just order seeds from them!
Hope this helps,
Paul