Hot Peppers
razib | June 19, 2009
Regular readers know that hot sauce and chili peppers are important to me. Currently I've taken to using dried habaneros instead of hot sauces, powders or fresh peppers. The last taste the best, but they don't always keep, and sauces are a mess. As for powders, there's always the problem of inhalation. In any case, from The American Journal of Botany, Genetic diversity and structure in semiwild and domesticated chiles (Capsicum annuum; Solanaceae) from Mexico:
The chile of Mesoamerica, Capsicum annuum, is one of five domesticated chiles in the Americas. Among the chiles, it varies the most…