Rocoto
शिमला मिर्चകാപ്സിക്കം പബ്ലെസെൻസ്ক্যাপসিকাম পিউবসিনস
Capsicum pubescens Ruiz & Pav.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.3 m
- wide
- 1.7 m
Solanaceae
Formerly Brachistus lanceifolius, Capsicum lanceifolium, Capsicum maximowiczii, Capsicum quitense
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Scrambling subshrub or shrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Peru to BoliviaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plantlust, one source
- Height
- 1.8 m to 2.7 mRead from Plantlust, one source
- Spread
- 1.5 m to 1.8 mRead from Plantlust, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plantlust, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from Wikipedia and Plantlust, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia blue, purple, violet; Plantlust purple
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Plantlust, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Slovenian
- rocoto čili
- German
- Baumchili
- Spanish
- Locoto
- Finnish
- Rokotopaprika
- French
- Rocoto
- Swedish
- Rokotopeppar
- Hindi
- शिमला मिर्च
- Bangla
- ক্যাপসিকাম পিউবসিনস
- Malayalam
- കാപ്സിക്കം പബ്ലെസെൻസ്
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plantlust, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Capsicum pubescens (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.