Nearly 500 year old pepper
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here is a french link that explain these botanical drawing
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jatba_0370-3681_1943_num_23_263_1767#
From 1542 Leonard Fuchs ( 23) gives a description of this plant he calls siliquastrum or pepper Calicut and he draws three boards. On one of the drawings is seen very clearly in the fruit capsules look long longitudinal dehiscence .
http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/jatba_0370-3681_1943_num_23_263_1767#
From 1542 Leonard Fuchs ( 23) gives a description of this plant he calls siliquastrum or pepper Calicut and he draws three boards. On one of the drawings is seen very clearly in the fruit capsules look long longitudinal dehiscence .
The Native Brazilian and South American cultures had many named varieties that they used mostly as a medicinal and culinary purposes, they also cooked the leaves and made a chocolate chili drink and made a powder to treat wounds and as as a dewormer, the women would put pepper powder on their nipples to break the children from nursing.
During the Spanish take over many varieties were lost as the Spanish and Portuguese tried to wipe out the many different cultures that were there and make slaves out of them. I wonder what the pepper species and varieties would be like today, had not so much cultural loss taken place at the arrival of the Spanish and Portuguese Jesuits.
During the Spanish take over many varieties were lost as the Spanish and Portuguese tried to wipe out the many different cultures that were there and make slaves out of them. I wonder what the pepper species and varieties would be like today, had not so much cultural loss taken place at the arrival of the Spanish and Portuguese Jesuits.
Funch did four drawing of pepper, refers to them as "indian pepper/ Calecuthicum"
image on the left : chalecutischer pfeffer - Capsicum annum
http://www.ncbs.res.in/hortus/Hortus_Catalogue.pdf
1540 Leonardo Fuchb described the Siliquastre: at that time he said, they were found throughout Germany recently imported still little known.
This claim seems accurate if you look at the three sketches that let us Funch
The first drawing represents pepper from India 'large and small' and lets see the fruit capsules
Opening out by the top in two valves, like a siliqua.
Certainly the author has not seen himself this feature from the allegation that it is impossible to trace the origin.
http://www.forgottenbooks.org/books/Les_Piments_des_Solanees_1200134007
http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/actahort745.pdf
The first European illustration found of pepper (Fig. 16) is located in the Codex
Amphibiorum dated ca. 1540, which shows a plant with conical and pendant fruits, either
green (immature) or dark colored (mature). A detached, longitudinally cut fruit shows the
inner structure with whitish seeds, and an adjacent sketch of a man bringing the fruit to
his mouth carries the message of edibility.
image on the left : chalecutischer pfeffer - Capsicum annum
http://www.ncbs.res.in/hortus/Hortus_Catalogue.pdf
1540 Leonardo Fuchb described the Siliquastre: at that time he said, they were found throughout Germany recently imported still little known.
This claim seems accurate if you look at the three sketches that let us Funch
The first drawing represents pepper from India 'large and small' and lets see the fruit capsules
Opening out by the top in two valves, like a siliqua.
Certainly the author has not seen himself this feature from the allegation that it is impossible to trace the origin.
http://www.forgottenbooks.org/books/Les_Piments_des_Solanees_1200134007
The first European illustration found of pepper (Fig. 16) is located in the Codex
Amphibiorum dated ca. 1540, which shows a plant with conical and pendant fruits, either
green (immature) or dark colored (mature). A detached, longitudinally cut fruit shows the
inner structure with whitish seeds, and an adjacent sketch of a man bringing the fruit to
his mouth carries the message of edibility.