Shima pepper

Capsicum frutescens

  • Shima pepper
  • Shima pepper
  • Shima pepper
  • Shima pepper
  • Flower name
    Shima pepper
  • Scientific name
    Capsicum frutescens
  • Aliasコーレーグス, 島唐辛子, 高麗薬, Shima pepper
  • Place of originOkinawa , the Amazon River basin of tropical America (Chili)
  • Place of floweringField
  • Flowering seasonSeptember

What is Shima pepper

タカノツメ(鷹の爪、C. a. var. conoides)

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Shima pepper, scientific name:Capsicum frutescens, is native to Okinawa is grass vegetable Eggplant of Capsicum a year. Spicy fruit. Japan in chili and chili pepper. (Talon) that is, but also the sixth (croquette) and the rain-man (piment), scientific name is Capsicum annuum L.) in fall. This koreigusu, Tabasco, pricking, or kidachitougarasi in the scientific name into Capsicum frutescens. Is smaller than the pepper berries, pepper than spicy. White flower, bloom in the fall. Green-yellow-orange-red and color changes as the fruit matures. Seasonings are put in the awamori koreigusu dried in spice of the College (medicine). Okinawa Soba, and eat. Use the spices of Tabasco as a substitute for Tabasco sauce, dipped in olive oil koreigusu, use the spaghetti.

Generic name:Shima pepper, scientific name:Capsicum frutescens, also known as: College (medicine), category: Plantae Angiosperm true dicots Eggplant eyes Eggplant of Capsicum, origin: Okinawa, height: 100-200 cm, flowering: September, color: white, Fruit color: green → yellow → orange → red, harvest moon-Moon, season: Monday, fruit length: 3-5 cm, fruit shape: long elliptic


  • Order
    Solanales
  • Family
    Solanaceae
  • Genus
    Capsicum
  • Species
    C. frutescens
  • Type of flower
    Radial symmetrical flower
  • Array of flower
    Monopetal inflorescence
  • Petal shape
    Funnel/trumpet shaped
  • Leaf type
    Oval
  • Edge of the leaf
    Entire
  • Life typeannual vegetables.
  • Flower colorsWhite
  • Colors of the leavesGreen
  • Fruit colorRed
  • Height100.0 ~ 200.0 cm
  • Diameter of flower1.0 ~ 1.5 cm

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