Fossil chili pepper (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Fossil chili pepper

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CU Boulder’s Rocío Deanna and Abel Campos identified this chili pepper fossil in the CU Boulder Museum of Natural History collections by the unique shape of its calyx teeth: spikes on the end of the fruiting stem that hold on to the pepper.

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R. Deanna

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