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There are a very wide variety of sweet or hot peppers in the Capsicum genus, closely related, which have similar growing needs. These include the sweet or Bell peppers (also known as Green peppers, though they come in a variety of colors), and hot chili peppers of many types, including tabasco, jalapeno, cayenne, habanero and many others.
There are a very wide variety of sweet or hot peppers in the Capsicum genus, closely related, which have similar growing needs. These include the sweet or Bell peppers (also known as Green peppers, though they come in a variety of colors), and hot chili peppers of many types, including tabasco, jalapeno, cayenne, habanero and many others.
Pepper plants are attractive small bushes, ranging from under a foot, to 4 feet tall{{SSN}} depending on the variety. The leaves are a deep, shiny green, which the ripening peppers can add color to. The cultivation of the plants is the same, regardless of variety, size, color, sweetness or spiciness. Can be planted as an informal border, in pots, or in the vegetable garden.
Sweet peppers never get hot, even if the flesh ripens to a red.
==Cultivation==
==Cultivation==
==Varieties==
==Varieties==
===Sweet peppers===
Sweet peppers include the big salad or stuffing peppers known as green or '''bell peppers'''. The best known varieties are 'California Wonder' and 'Yolo Wonder'{{SSN}}. Hybrids may offer earlier harvests, better disease resistance and bigger yields. Colors other than green are available, including red, yellow and orange. Purple can also be found, but if cooked the purple will turn green{{SSN}}. The very sweet '''pimientos''', which have thick walls, also fall into the sweet pepper category. Pimientos are usually used in salads, cooking and canning. '''Sweet cherry peppers''' are grown to be pickled. '''Italian frying peppers''' and '''Hungarian sweet yellow peppers''' are grown for cooking.
===Hot peppers===
==Gallery==
==Gallery==
