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 red pepers, mostly hanging downward, and green dangling leaves. Inscribed in ink 'Capsicum fructu rugoso maximo plerumque nutatnte Rand n.5'. Not signed. |