You snack on bell peppers, you love the heat of jalapeño in homemade watermelon salsa and you’ve dabbled with poblanos, but you’re ready to branch out. Good news: There are approximately 4,000 ...

Capsicum species represent a group of economically and nutritionally important crops that have undergone extensive genetic reshaping through domestication and modern breeding. The wide phenotypic ...

The National Garden Bureau named 2026 the Year of the Hot Pepper. This guide highlights varieties to try, from super-hot ones ...

Peppers are a versatile, flavorful, and widely popular crop, used not only as a healthy food source but also for their medicinal properties. Scientists have now sequenced the genomes of key cultivated ...

Peppers are one of the fundamental building blocks of numerous cuisines, but it should be pretty obvious that not all peppers are the same. It would be difficult to confuse any of the various types of ...

Characteristics of bell peppers: Bell peppers are large compared to other types of peppers, and can be green, yellow, orange and red (and sometimes purple) in color. They’re not fully ripe in their ...