Lost Crops of the Incas Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation (1989) / Chapter Skim
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In the United States, for example, produce markets carry fresh peppers in rainbow colors from white to purple, sizes from a gram to a half kilo, and shapes from flat to spherical. Grocery shelves display dozens of concoctions to fire the taste buds.
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It is a perennial that grows for 10 or more years and is sometimes called the "tree Chile." The Incas prized rocoto for its special flavor, and 450 years later it is still mainly confined to the Andean area formerly occupied by the Incas. However, it is also cultivated a little in the highlands of Costa Rica (particularly for producing yellow food coloring)
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The common cultivated pepper of the southern part of the Andean area is the brilliantly colored Capsicum baccatum.4 Cultivated forms seem to have been domesticated from wild, weedy plants in a large band of territory stretching from southern Peru eastwards through Bolivia and Paraguay to southwestern Brazil. The center of origin is probably Bolivia.
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, one species spread throughout much of the world to become the chili and sweet peppers that liven foods on every continent. The other species, including two domesticated and perhaps a dozen wild ones, remain to be exploited beyond the Andes.
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Wild Andean Peppered In the peppers' probable "homeland" in Bolivia are two essentially undomesticated species, known as "ulupicas, " both of which are greatly appreciated by the local peoples.7 They are aromatic, tasty, and much hotter than rocoto or other common peppers. As the Indian name implies, they are closely related to one another, and perhaps to rocoto.
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Wild and primitive cultivars undoubtedly contain useful sources of resistance to viral, bacterial, and fungal diseases, as well as nematodes, in addition to possessing desirable culinary qualities. Also, genes for greater environmental This scientific name, by P.G.
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Unfortunately, the species fall into a number of distinct genetic groups that do not hybridize freely with one another, thus limiting the usefulness of genes from other species.' Industrialized Regions. The common pepper is increasingly popular in the United States and other nations that have had no tradition of eating spicy food.
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