Description | Botanical study of a specimen of capsicum, common name pepper. Isaac Rand was Praefectus Horti of Chelsea Physic Garden, 1724-43, where this plant was most likely cultivated.
Plant with large upright orange peppers and green dangling leaves. Inscribed in ink 'Capsicum majus fructu oblongo, pyramidato erecto flavo, Rand N.4'. Not signed. |