Wild relatives of the domesticated peppers may not conform precisely to these descriptions. Pedicels usually declining at anthesis. Pedicels erect at anthesis but flowers nodding. Corolla greenish-white, without diffuse spots at base of lobes, corolla lobes often slightly revolute. Fruit flesh often soft.
Pedicels erect or declining at anthesis.
Calyx of mature fruit usually with annular constriction at junction with pedicel, veins not prolonged into teeth. Fruit flesh firm. Flowers solitary at each node. Pedicels erect or declining at anthesis. Fruit flesh firm.