Hot Pepper 'McMahon's Texas Bird'

A 120 day 1/2 x 1/4 inch pepper. Acording to the Capsicum Variety Database; "This rare seed of the Bird Pepper (Capsicum annuum var. gla...Read Morebriusculum) was obtained in 1812 and 1813 from Captain Samuel Brown, who was stationed in San Antonio, Texas, by Thomas Jefferson. The species is said to be a native of southwest Texas, Mexico and Central America. In its native habitat, the Bird Pepper, known as Chiltecpin (Chill-tech-peen) to pre-Columbian Amerindians and the first Spanish plant collectors, is a low shrub growing to five feet in height. " Reimer thinks it is C. baccatum and named for botanist Bernard McMahon who gave it to Jefferson in the late 1700's.