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Peppers

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  • A chilli pepper (Capsicum annum) and a separate leafy stem. Watercolour.
  • Chilli or pepper plant (Capsicum annuum): fruiting stem. Watercolour.
  • Workers harvesting sago in a tropical wooded glade with a bilimbi tree, a sago palm, a durian tree and a pepper plant. Engraving, c. 1777.
  • A fruiting Abutilon species, a fruiting pepper plant (Capsicum sp.) and a flowering Sisyrinchium orientale. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1743, after himself.
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    A fruiting Abutilon species, a fruiting pepper plant (Capsicum sp.) and a flowering Sisyrinchium orientale. Etching by G. D. Ehret, c. 1743, after himself.

    Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770. | Date: [1743-45] | Reference: 18619i
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    A red pepper and a courgette; advertising safe sex as preventing AIDS. Colour lithograph for AIDS Hilfe Schweiz, 2002.

    | Date: [2002] | Reference: 752124i
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    Workers harvesting sago in a tropical wooded glade with a bilimbi tree, a sago palm, a durian tree and a pepper plant. Engraving, c. 1777.

    | Date: [1777-78] | Reference: 26351i
    • Books

    Peppers : the domesticated Capsicums / written and illustrated by Jean Andrews ; foreword by W. Hardy Eshbaugh.

    Andrews, Jean, 1923- | Date: 1984
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    A chilli pepper (Capsicum annum) and a separate leafy stem. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 22735i
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