Interesting news

[JohnF]

Posted on the MSN forum

Capsicum ciliatum that was reclassified as the non-capsicum Witheringia ciliatum has yet again been reclassified as Capsicum rhomboideum or GRIF 16136.  This is new and exciting for as long as it lasts.  More interesting is that there are still taxonomists working with Capsicum.  This is very exciting for me.

Chance

[Aji Inferno]

Posted on the MSN forum

Capsicum ciliatum that was reclassified as the non-capsicum Witheringia ciliatum has yet again been reclassified as Capsicum rhomboideum or GRIF 16136.  This is new and exciting for as long as it lasts.  More interesting is that there are still taxonomists working with Capsicum.  This is very exciting for me.

Chance

Yes, A.T.Hunziker re-classified ciliatum back to capsicum at latest in 2001 (The Genera of Solanaceae), and since then at least South-American researchers seem to have considered it a true capsicum. The whole picture behind it and its relatives is even more fascinating, since ciliatum/rhomboideum appears to belong to the oldest known capsicums, a remnant from very ancient times before the Andean mountains rose...

More info will follow in Inferno's new Wild section. Sorry for that being late - I ended up including the domesticated species there as well, in order to create a more complete overall picture of peppers. That has taken some additional time...

[thp]

The whole picture behind it and its relatives is even more fascinating, since ciliatum/rhomboideum appears to belong to the oldest known capsicums, a remnant from very ancient times before the Andean mountains rose...

This is exactly the kind of mind-boggling stuff that makes chiles so fascinating. What started for me as "hey, I'll put some of those on my windowsill just for the hell of it" is growing to a hunger of knowlegde of everything related.

I can't wait for your up-to-date Wild section @ Inferno, since there are not many good sources anywhere else in one place.