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 red peppers and unripe green fruit, for the most part hanging downwards. Inscribed in ink 'Capsicum majus fructu plerumque nutante rubro, Rand. n.8'. Not signed. |