New information about "Eastern" Brazilian wild cap

[Aji Inferno]

First, thank you, Luca, for your help - the translation of the document, and for any help in the future!

So, there is some new information in Inferno now about the until now completely unknown "eastern" capsicums. I accidentally managed to get inside some Brazilian university public database where all those beauties were listed... in Portuguese, of course!  After some cursing and using of crude translation engines, I managed to get probably the best information I've ever seen about Brazilian capsicums.

It seems they (most of them) have been researched, after all, during the last 20 or so years, but for some reason, these results haven't found their way to English-speaking world at all. Still, we're not talking about light credibility researchers. In many of the tours where these strange plants were collected, described etc, around Brazil, there was at least one very familiar name involved: A.T.Hunziker, possibly the leading capsicum scientist of South America.

All the findings were documented with GPS location devices, so in principle, many of these rare findings could be found again. The maps shown in "Villichilit" (= "Wild capsicums") section of the Inferno, are as accurate as sensibly possible: I mapped all the available (hundreds of) GPS coordinates into real maps, and so you can see where those devils actually grow, or have grown...

The real work starts here. There is literature available in Brazil, with even photos of all these rarities and new species to science - but at least I could not find a way to order them to Finland. Once again: everything's in Portuguese...  Also, it might be worth contacting some of the researchers.

But... what are these new strange chilies like? It looks like they're mostly giants. Small trees of ca. 4m height and greenish-yellow, a little or non-pungent berries.

More info will follow.

[luca]

Excellent! This is very interesting!!! Thanks a lot for your translation :-)
I've been looking the "viillichilit pages" and I was amazed to see that even in my state Rio Grande do Sul (which is rather cold compared to the north of Brazil) there are some wild chiles pointed out on your maps.  Maybe this southern species cannot tolerate Finland's cold, but I'm sure they're resistant to frost and a bit of snow, since they're occuring in the mountains area of my state.  Cool!

I always thought that there hasn't been much research in Brazil about Capsicum, but the data you've found seems amazing! If you need some help with translations or anything else, just let me know! What was the university where the database was located?