There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Well, that's what he did with peppers too. Capsicums are actually in the Solanaceae family, along with deadly nightshade, potatoes, and tobacco. Not one wild species has since been domesticated, though many are harvested.
ALL wild capsicums are pungent.
ALL mild and sweet capsicums are that way only because they've been domesticated. Capsicum baccatum vas. Capiscum annuum car. And while I'm on the subject, let me give great thanks and praise and appreciation to Jean Andrews and her book, Red Hot Peppers , both for her fastidious research and for her infectious exuberance for a humdinger of a food. I was hopeful when I started the research that I'd find a panacea.