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 long orange peppers and unripe green fruit, some hanging downward and some upright. Inscribed in ink 'Capsicum fructu flavo pyramidato oblongo nunc erecto nunc nutante, Rand n.9.' Not signed. |