Capsicum frutescens
(chilli)

Preferred Common Name

• chilli

International Common Names

• English: bird pepper; cayenne pepper; tabasco pepper
• Spanish: chile
• French: piment; piment de Cayenne; piment d'oiseau
• Portuguese: pimantão; pimento

Local Common Names

• Germany: Cayenne- Pfeffer; Chilli- Pfeffer; Vogel- Pfeffer; Ziegen- Pfeffer
• Italy: peperone rabbioso

EPPO code

• CPSFR (Capsicum frutescens)

• Domain: Eukaryota
•     Kingdom: Plantae
•         Phylum: Spermatophyta
•             Subphylum: Angiospermae
•                 Class: Dicotyledonae
•                     Order: Solanales
•                         Family: Solanaceae
•                             Genus: Capsicum
•                                 Species: Capsicum frutescens

Major host of:

Acanthocoris scaber; Andean potato mottle virus (Andean mottle of potato); Anthonomus eugenii (pepper weevil); Bactrocera trivialis; Beet curly top virus (curly top); Botryodiplodia palmarum; Broad bean wilt virus (lamium mild mosaic); Chilli veinal mottle virus (CVbMV); Choanephora cucurbitarum (Choanephora fruit rot); Commelina benghalensis (wandering jew); Cucumber mosaic virus (cucumber mosaic); Heliothis sp. (army worm); Meloidogyne arenaria (peanut root-knot nematode); Pepper golden mosaic virus; Pepper mild mottle virus (PMMV); Pepper veinal mottle virus; Phenacoccus parvus (lantana mealybug); Phytophthora capsici (stem and fruit rot of Capsicum); Polyphagotarsonemus latus (broad mite); Potato virus X (potato interveinal mosaic); Scirtothrips dorsalis (chilli thrips); Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (cottony soft rot); Spodoptera litura (taro caterpillar); Tobacco curly shoot virus; Tomato mosaic virus (tomato mosaic); Xanthomonas euvesicatoria pv. euvesicatoria (bacterial spot of tomato and pepper); Xiphinema (dagger nematode)

Minor host of:

Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed); Aphis gossypii (cotton aphid); Aspergillus flavus (Aspergillus ear rot); Aspergillus niger (black mould of onion); Asphondylia capsicicola (Asian chili pod gall midge); Atherigona orientalis (pepper fruit fly); Bactrocera dorsalis (Oriental fruit fly); Bactrocera facialis; Bactrocera kirki; Bactrocera latifrons (Solanum fruit fly); Bactrocera tryoni (Queensland fruit fly); Berkeleyomyces basicola (black root rot); Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly); Ceratitis rosa (Natal fruit fly); Clinodiplosis capsici; Cochliobolus lunatus (head mould of grasses, rice and sorghum); Colletotrichum coccodes (black dot of potato); Cuscuta campestris (field dodder); Dactyloctenium aegyptium (crowfoot grass); Diaporthe phaseolorum var. sojae (pod blight: soyabean); Epitrix tuberis (tuber flea beetle); Globisporangium irregulare (dieback: carrot); Groundnut bud necrosis virus; Hemicycliophora arenaria (sheath nematode); Hoplolaimus indicus (lance nematode); Leveillula taurica (powdery mildew of cotton); Maconellicoccus hirsutus (pink hibiscus mealybug); Meloidogyne ethiopica (Root-knot nematode); Neoceratitis cyanescens (tomato fruit fly); Pepper vein yellows virus; Phenacoccus solenopsis (cotton mealybug); Phomopsis longicolla (pod and stem blight); Phytophthora drechsleri (watermelon fruit rot); Phytophthora infestans (Phytophthora blight); Piezodorus hybneri (legume stink bug); Pinnaspis strachani (lesser snow scale); Podosphaera xanthii (powdery mildew of cucurbits); Pratylenchus penetrans (nematode, northern root lesion); Pseudococcus jackbeardsleyi (Jack Beardsley mealybug); Pseudomonas viridiflava (bacterial leaf blight of tomato); Rhyzopertha dominica (lesser grain borer); Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm); Tomato ringspot virus (ringspot of tomato)

Host of (source - data mining):

Aleurodicus dispersus (whitefly); Alternaria passiflorae (brown spot of passionfruit); Bactrocera cucurbitae (melon fly); Beet western yellows virus (turnip (mild) yellows); Bemisia tabaci (tobacco whitefly); Bemisia tabaci (MEAM1) (silverleaf whitefly); Bemisia tabaci (MED) (silverleaf whitefly); Ceratitis cosyra (mango fruit fly); Colletotrichum boninense; Dacus ciliatus (lesser pumpkin fly); Diabrotica speciosa (cucurbit beetle); Ditylenchus; Empoasca decipiens (leafhopper, cotton); Frankliniella schultzei (cotton thrips); Helicoverpa assulta (Oriental tobacco budworm); Helopeltis schoutedeni (cacao-mosquito); Hemicriconemoides mangiferae; Icerya seychellarum (Seychelles scale); Lasiodiplodia theobromae (diplodia pod rot of cocoa); Liriomyza huidobrensis (serpentine leafminer); Meloidogyne (root knot nematodes); Meloidogyne enterolobii (Pacara earpod tree root-knot nematode); Moniliophthora perniciosa (witches' broom disease of cacao); Potato virus Y (potato mottle); Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum; Ralstonia solanacearum (bacterial wilt of potato); Thrips parvispinus (tobacco thrips); Tomato chlorotic spot virus; Tomato mottle mosaic virus; Tomato spotted wilt orthotospovirus (tomato spotted wilt)