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hii patrick, the pods of the first photo are like hot lemon, they are very very similiar. I grown aji panca last year but the final color was brown, nothing color like red idem the shape totally different

hii patrick, the pods of the first photo are like hot lemon, they are very very similiar. I grown aji panca last year but the final color was brown, nothing color like red idem the shape totally different

Hello Bonnet! I agree Blondie looks very similar to Hot Lemon. I belive there is several Aji Pancas. The Aji Panca that is brown is a capsicum chinense I belive. This red Aji Panca is a baccatum. In Sweden you can by the red Aji Panca (baccatum) as a sundried (dry) pepper from Peru. I took the seeds from one of those pods.RegardsPatrik

mhhhhh never heard about the aji family to be chinense, the aji panca (brown\dark red color) is a baccatum. Sometimes in market (or if you buy a chili-plant in the greenhouse) the guys wrong the real name. But of course i can make a mistake

I belive there are as many Aji Panca´s as there are Aji Amarillo. Very confusing with a Aji that is a Capsicum chinense.from http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Caps_fru.html"The chinense species apparently was first domesticated in Perú, although today the Andes region is characterized mainly by C. pubescens and C. baccatum cultivars; chinense cultivars are comparatively rare in today’s Perú, but there are still several varieties grown locally in the Peruvian tropics: The most renowned cultivar is the red and very hot Chinchi-uchu, and a group of similar yellow chiles is referred to as ají limo. The ají panca is particularly worth noting as has the full chinense flavour, but comparatively little heat and pungency. A very unusual fruit shape is shown by a cultivar called scarlet lantern, whose top-shaped, pointed fruits turn from a dark aubergine purple to bright orange when ripe." This one looks like the one i am growing:AJI PANCA REDRegardsPatrik