Chilli
சீமை மிளகாய்కాప్సికం ఆనంമുളക്
Capsicum annuum L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Plenty
- tall
- 71 cm
- wide
- 23 cm
Solanaceae
Also called Chili pepper, Sweet pepper, Bell pepper, Chilipiquin, Chilli pepper
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual, subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. U.S.A. to Brazil, CaribbeanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 30 cm to 1.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 15 cm to 30 cmRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Plenty: wet or constantly moistRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- bumi, cahuasa, cancol
- Spanish
- Chile, Ají, Pimentón
- myn
- ch'uhuk-ik
- Indonesian
- Cabe
- Portuguese
- Pimentão, Pimentões, Pimentas-doce, Pimentas-jalapeño, Pimentas-cayenne e afins
- Czech
- paprika setá
- Chinese
- 辣椒, 辣椒头, 小米辣
- Norwegian Bokmål
- paprika
- Japanese
- トウガラシ, ゴシキトウガラシ, ピーマン
- Finnish
- ruokapaprika, paprika
- Polish
- Papryka roczna
- Korean
- 고추
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Capsicum annuum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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