Vegetables
Heredity: Open Pollinated

Data specific to Peppers (Edit)
General Type: Pimiento
Pepper Shape: Cylindrical
Squat
Other: Ribbed
Fruit Length: 1.5 - 2 inches
Fruit Width at Shoulders: 2 - 3 inches
Fruit Ripening Color Sequence: Other: Yellow to Tangerine Orange
Days to First Harvest and Maturity: 70 Yellow, 85-90 orange.
Wall Thickness: Thick
Heat: Sweet<100SHU

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 12 - 18 inches
Fruit: Showy
Uses: Vegetable
Suitable as Annual

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Common names
  • Sweet Pepper
Also sold as:
  • Tangerine Pimento

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Location: Zone 5 Fort Wayne Indiana
Date: 2011-08-25
Tangerine Pimiento
Location: Zone 5 Fort Wayne Indiana
Date: 2011-07-14
Tangerine Pimiento flower

Courtesy Seeds of Victoria
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Comments:
  • Posted by DanCarmona (Fort Wayne, Indiana - Zone 5a) on Jan 18, 2012 12:09 PM concerning plant:
    Tangerine Pimiento
    Capsicum: Annuum
    Origin: USA
    PI:
    Flower: erect, stellate
    Petals: white
    Spots: no
    Calyx: toothless
    Pods: Green > orange, 3 X 3"
    Seed: yellow-brown
    Leaves: medium, glabrous
    Plant height: 18-24"
    Maturity: 80 Days
    Habit: sturdy, tree-like bush
    Scoville units: 0
    Germ. Time: 1 wk > 2 mo.

    Plant produces good yields of 3" long by 3 ½" wide orange sweet peppers. Peppers look like a tangerine and turns green to orange when mature. Excellent for gourmet dishes.

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