These members of the Solanaceae family are very tasty. The green pepper or bell pepper are part of the Solanaceae family because of the ovary having 3 to 4 carpels which is evident in the fruit or peppers on an herbaceous plant.
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Just be careful eating the wild ones. Don’t want to eat horse nettle on accident
Just be careful eating the wild ones. Don’t want to eat horse nettle on accident
The cultivated varieties can have different numbers of carpels, kind of like the cultivated tomatoes having different numbers of carpels.
I’m not for sure but I thought that peppers have two fused carpels.