Pimento, Marguerite's

Sweet, pimiento pepper. C. annuum. Great flavor. Flattened, highly ribbed fruit ripen from green to red. Fruit measure about 2in long; 3.5in wide; and weigh 4-7ozs. Smooth skin. Thick flesh. Brix score: 8.4. Relatively short, sparsely branched plants grow up to 2.5ft tall. Low to moderate productivity when grown in 2015 at Heritage Farm. Early maturing. Delicious, fruity, juicy, crunchy variety rated highly in the 2015 SSE pepper taste evaluation. Donated to SSE by Sue Gronholz (WI GR S). Sue first listed this variety in the 2004 SSE Exchange where she stated she received it from "Marguerite Jones of Thawville, IL in the hopes that I would keep her variety going." At that time Marguerite was an elderly gardener who saw an article about Sue and her love of gardening. This pepper is one which Marguerite had acquired from another gardening friend. SSE Accession # 118251