Spanskpeppar (ruokapaprika) – Capsicum annuum

Stem is up to 1 cm in diameter, green to brown-green, often softly hairy and with purplish spots near nodes. Leaves are alternate, simple, without stipules. Petiole is up to 10 cm long. Leaf blade is ovate, up to 10 cm × 5 cm, acuminate at apex, margin usually entire, almost glabrous, pale to dark green. Flowers are usually solitary, sometimes 2 or more per node, bisexual, usually 5-merous. Pedicel is usually pending. Calyx is cup-shaped, persistent and enlarging in fruit, usually with conspicuous teeth. Corolla is campanulate to rotate, 8-15 mm indiameter, white or greenish, rarely purple, tube short, lobes ovate. Stamens are united to the base of the corolla tube, with pale blue to purplish anthers. Ovary is superior, style filiform, white or purplish, stigma capitate. Fruit is a berry, very variable in size, shape, colour, and degree of pungency, usually more or less conical, up to 30 cm long, green, yellow, cream or purplish when immature, red, orange, yellow or brown when mature, many-seeded. Seeds are orbicular, flattened, 3-5.5 mm in diameter, pale yellow.