Rewriting the evolutionary timeline of chili peppers with the recent discovery of 50 million years…An incredible recent discovery sheds new light establishing that chili peppers existed 50 million years ago, far earlier than previously…Jul 26, 2024Jul 26, 2024
Baekdudaegan Refugium and the Korean Landscape — Part 2In Part 1, the unique parallels between the Appalachian Mountain and Baekdudaegan Mountain Range as refugia for flora and fauna during the…Jul 25, 2021Jul 25, 2021
Baekdudaegan Refugium and the Korean Landscape — Part 1In the previous post, we have observed the map by the United States Department of Agriculture of how wild bird pepper Capsicum…Jul 1, 2021Jul 1, 2021
Wild bird peppers discovered across North America: Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculumPreviously, we have examined studies that reveal how Capsicum diverged from ancestral Solanaceae about 19.6 million years ago, originating…Jun 18, 2021Jun 18, 2021
Evolution of Capsicum from SolanaceaeLet us look back even further, back millions of years, to examine latest genetic studies of how Capsicum diverged from Solanaceae.Jun 1, 2021Jun 1, 2021
Where did Capsicum annuum originate?How Korean gochu pepper was introduced to Korea does not seem to fit wholly with the scenario that it must have come via the Portuguese…May 24, 2021May 24, 2021
Japan had chance to get chili peppers directly from Mexico?Japanese went to Mexico before the Portuguese did? While looking into any information explaining how Japan got chili peppers, I…May 10, 2021May 10, 2021
Japanese pepper origin theory: introduced from ancient KoreaThe Native Americans are granted thousands of years to cultivate peppers from the wild. But Asia and Korea supposedly cultivated their…May 10, 2021May 10, 2021
How Southeast Asia got their chili peppersHow Southeast Asia got their chili peppers is an excellent question. But the more I look for details, the more things get vague due to…May 9, 2021May 9, 2021
