62 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
ARTIFICIAL KEY TO GARDEN PEPPERS. 
* Peduncles straight; fruit erect or spreading. 
+ Calyx embracing base of fruit, the latter much longer than broad. 
++ Fruit short, usually less than 14 in, long; peduncles nearly as 
long or longer. 
Plant 24 ft. or more high, maturing slowly and rarely ripen- 
ing fruit except in extreme south. C. frutescens. 
Plant ripening its fruit earlier, usually not over 14 ft. high 
except for the first variety. C. annuum conoides. 
Fruit usually compressed at the base by the calyx; 
plant at least 2 ft. high. TABASCO. 
Fruit not compressed at the base by the calyx. 
Dark red. 
Oblong fusiform. Cora Gem. 
Conical or ovate obtuse. CAYENNE. 
Orange red. ORANGE-RED CLUSTER. 
++ ++ Fruit usually more than 14 in. long, slender, largest diameter 
usually less than 4 in.; peduncles shorter; flesh very thin 
(about 33; in ). 
Plant about 1 ft. high; leaves and fruit fascicled. 
C. annuum fasciculatum,. 
Fruit red. RED CLUSTER. 
Fruit yellow. YELLOW CLUSTER, 
Plant larger; leaves and fruit not fascicled. 
C. annuum acuminatum, 
Fruit red. CHILLI. 
Fruit yellow. YELLOW CaILLI. 
+ + Calyx not usually embracing base of fruit, or only obscurely so; 
fruit usually more than 14 in. long, largest diameter usually 
more than 4 in.; flesh somewhat thicker. C. annuum longum. 
Petals more or less purple; fruit black at first, becoming 
orange-red. BLAck NuBIAN, 
Petals white; fruit green, becoming red when ripe. 
LONG REp. 
+-++Calyx not embracing base of fruit, the latter slightly longer than 
broad, subconical, ovate, or oblong, usually ¥ in, to 2 in. long. 
C. annuum abbreviatum. 
Fruit bright red when ripe. 
Changing from green to light yellow or straw color before 
ripening, subrugose, not turbinate, 
Usually mucronate, oval. KALEIDOSCOPE, 
Not mucronate, subconical. CELESTIAL, 
Not changing to light yellow. 
Very rugose, often turbinate. RED WRINKLED, 
Neither rugose nor turbinate. Erna. 
