Question about Chile Rayado

[macmex]

I grow a pepper which I obtained in Central Mexico. Our family lived in the State of Hidalgo for about 8 1/2 years and this one was my wife's absolute favorite. It was also extremely popular there. It's grown in a region called "la Huesteca," which lays in an area encompassing parts of Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí and Veracruz.

I grow it every year, here in Oklahoma and, over the last few years the question has come up as to its species. It has never crossed with anything else in my garden. True, I have tried to give it a good distance isolation from anything c. annuum, but I'm thinking it's not a c. annum. Would anyone here have an idea?

Here's a link to a thread on this pepper, with a good many pictures. I'll post a few pictures here as well.

[macmex]

Here's another image, this time of the flowers and foliage.

[xdrix]

What is the taste of the fruit?
Hot or sweet?
The flowers have the heven color than capsium anuum.
The leaf are differents.
Its very interessant!
Can you show a flower in the front view?

[diane]

I've looked in my four pepper books.

The Serrano, a type of C annuum, is from the mountains of northern Puebla and Hidalgo. The leaves are hairy.

In Peppers of the World, An Identification Guide by Dave DeWitt and Paul W. Bosland, there is a photo of C annuum cv 'Seraano Huasteco' which is grown primarily in Navarit, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa and Tamaulipas.

[imgrimmer]

macmex is it a fast ripening variety? Do you know the DTM?

[flowerbug]

love the color and shape. why is it her favorite?