Yazdy ji, pl see the second image on the same page and description along side: length 2-5 cm, width 5 mm Erect short and drooping long chillies were earlier treated as two different species C. frutescens and C. annuum, respectively, but now thought that these differences are not enough, hence a single species.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird's_eye_chili -- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Yazdy Palia <[email protected]> wrote: > Dr. Gurcharan Singh ji, > Many thanks for the identification. I knew it as Bird eye chilli, but > had my doubts. The reason being, the Wikipedia link sent by you (I had > also gone through it before sending it to eflora) has a picture with > the chilli hanging down. The picture of the chilli sent by me is > always pointing upwards. The length of the chilli in our place is > never over 1" .and the diameter is hardly 5 mm,(the picture sent by > me shows the length of the chilli around 6 mm and the diameter around > 4 mm), whereas the picture in Wikipedia link shows the chilli over 2" > according to me and the diameter at least 10 mm. The scovile rating > however is perfect. Please help me. Regards. > Yazdy. > > > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Yazdy ji > > This is again Capsicum frutescens, now correctly known as Capsicum annuum > > (C. frutescens being synonym of C. annuum). > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird's_eye_chili > > > > -- > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > > Retired Associate Professor > > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Yazdy Palia <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Friends, pictures of flowers, fruits and leaves of bird eye chilli. > >> Could someone come out with the Botanical name please? > >> Regards > >> Yazdy. > >> > >> You have been sent 6 pictures. > >> > >> > >> IMG_4883.JPG > >> IMG_4884.JPG > >> IMG_4895.JPG > >> IMG_4896.JPG > >> IMG_4899.JPG > >> IMG_4902.JPG > >> > >> These pictures were sent with Picasa, from Google. > >> Try it out here: http://picasa.google.com/ > > > > > > > > >
