Its not even black... look at it...carefully, skin is same color as darkest of dark eggplants (brinjals in India) one could even do a quick and easy paper chromatography of sorts... red, blue, green and brownish color lines or rings would form ... just in water and may be some alcohol added... I had left a few cross sections by mistake on a table napkin.. not even a blotting paper... colors diffused out... did not photograph it.. may be i should have ... but it was a few years ago.. dont remember if it was before the digitals...
AGree with Balkarji... calling these chilli peppers, black pepper implies the small round black peppers: piper nigrum... Usha di ====== On Dec 23, 5:43 pm, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Capsicum frutescens, the chili pepper > > Calling it black pepper would be a confusion. > > -- > 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: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Neha Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > > This Black pepper variety was a planted sp,. photographed at Betul, MP, on > > 14 th Dec 11. > > > Plz Id. > > > Thanks > > Neha Singh
