kochchi
I think the botanical name is Capsicum frutescens but I could be mistaken on this. Google isn’t being very helpful.
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On 03-Apr-07 at 7:48 am,
Darwin wrote:
Yup it IS Capsicum frutescens, and apparently the English name is ‘bird pepper’.
On 03-Apr-07 at 11:40 am,
drac wrote:
Cool. But then this picture and description is all wrong.
I thought it belonged to the same family as the habanero so I made a wild assed guess
On 03-Apr-07 at 11:57 am,
Darwin wrote:
Aha..so maybe ‘Bird Pepper’ is the misnomer here. Those chillies don’t look like the traditional SL kochchi which is slightly longer, and you also get red and white kochchi on the same bush sometimes. I’ve seen several different types of kochchi even in SL so maybe they’re all sub-species of C. frutescens.
On 03-Apr-07 at 3:37 pm,
drac wrote:
Oooh. I’ve only heard of the white kochchi, haven’t actually seen or tried any… I think.
I was chasing down the possibility that kochchi might be Capsicum baccatum (link here), but it’s a false alarm.