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Green-chilli

Chilli is considered as one of the best spices used in Kitchen. Chillies are used in cooking, pickles and chutney. Red chillies are used as dried as well as powder both in vegetarian and no-vegetarian cooking. Due to its universal use, it is known as “the Queen of Spices”.

Uses

cold, fevers, asthma, digestive problems, Skin eruptions, sprains, unbroken chilblains, neuralgia, pleurisy

Parts Used

Flowers, Fruits, Leaves.

Chemical Composition

Capsaicin, a red colouring matter, oleic, palmitic and stearic acids[1]

Common names

Language Common name
Kannada
Hindi
Malayalam
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi NA
Gujarathi NA
Punjabi NA
Kashmiri NA
Sanskrit
English Agrimony


Habit

Stout herb

Identification

Leaf

Kind Shape Feature
Simple alternate Elliptical to lanceolate, with smooth margins (entire)

[2]

Flower

Type Size Color and composition Stamen More information
Unisexual around 1.5 cm Yellow 5 The small flowers are borne singly or, rarely, in pairs in the axils

Fruit

Type Size Mass Appearance Seeds More information
Berries pod 7–10 mm (0.28–0.4 in.) long pome Ripening to green, yellow, orange, red, or purple But with no sutures—that vary considerably in size and shape many {{{6}}}

Other features

List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used

Where to get the saplings

Mode of Propagation

Seeds.

How to plant/cultivate

Capsicums (Capsicum annuum) and chillies (Capsicum frutescens) are cultivated as annual vegetables while the edible parts are botanically fruit.[3]

Commonly seen growing in areas

landscape in vegetable gardens, landscape as cultivated, tender, herbaceous annual.

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References

External Links