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Capsicum annuum 'Tangerine Dream'

Genus: Capsicum
Specific Epithet: annuum
Cultivar Name: 'Tangerine Dream'
Common Name: Tangerine Dream pepper
Family: Solanaceae

Flower Color: white
Form: short-lived perennial, but best grown as an annual below zones 9-10
Hardiness Zone: 9-10
Height: 12''
Width: 28''
Soil: well-drained average garden soil
Sun: full sun

Uses: culinary, ornamental
Parts Used: fruit

"Developed and released by the U.S. National Arboretum's Floral and Nursery Plant Research Unit in 2000, this chile pepper cultivar is both ornamental and tasty. Capsicum
annuum 'Tangerine Dream' is a controlled pollination hybrid of a sweet hybrid bell pepper 'Cadice' and squash type pepper 'Tennessee Cheese.' From many generations of crosses, 'Tangerine Dream' was selected for its prostrate growth habit, dark green foliage, and bright tangerine-colored, conical upright fruit. It also has a sweet, rich pepper taste.

'Tangerine Dream' grows the same as other chile pepper cultivars. It needs full sun and can tolerate dry soils. It makes a wonderful display in a bedded out situation, and its prostrate growth habit makes it particularly good for container combinations." – James Adams, Curator of the National Herb Garden, Promising Plants Presentation, 2005

Seed Source: will be available from Burpee in 2006

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