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 heart-shaped orange peppers and unripe green fruit, some hanging downward and some upright. Inscribed in ink 'Capsicum fructu cordiformi nunc erecto nunc nutante flavo Rand n.7'. Not signed. |