Appearance
Pepper varieties in the ''C. baccatum'' species have white or cream colored flowers, and typically have a green or gold corolla. The flowers are either insect or self-pollinated. The fruit pods of the baccatum species have been cultivated into a wide variety of shapes and sizes, unlike other capsicum species, which tend to have a characteristic shape. The pods typically hang down, unlike a ''Capsicum frutescens'' plant, and can have a citrus or fruity flavor.Naming
Some form of the word ''ají'' has been used since approximately 4600 BCE. It was first used in the protolanguage Otomanguean. It then spread along with the Capsicum fruit from Central and South America to other pepper growing regions. ''Capsicum baccatum'' is still referred to as ají, while other peppers are referred to as pepper via the Spanish conquistadors noting of the similarity in heat sensation to ''Piper sp''.Its Latin binomial is made up of ''Capsicum'' from the Greek ''kapos'', and ''baccatum'' meaning berry-like.
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