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Bear Pepper Spray: It Works! I caught [the bear] full in the face when it was four feet away. It was like it hit a wall. The grizzly turned and ran so fast toward her cub she ran over it. Then, cub and sow were gone ... This worked exactly the way it was designed to work. The bears didnt die.
Capsicum spp (wild chilies), produce ripe fruits that repel seed predators in favor of animals that disperse seed. This is attributed to secondary metabolites (capsaicin) that deter consumption by mammals, such as rodents, that typically destroy seeds while consuming fruits.
Karyodat ist eine Datenbank für karyologische Merkmale der Gefäßpflanzen Deutschlands. ; Karyodat is a database for karyologic features of german vascular plants.
POHLAN H. A. J., LEYVA GALÁN, A., GAMBOA MOYA, W.: Establecimiento de cultivos de plantas medicinales en agroecosistemas tropicales. Memorias en extenso. Primer Congreso Internacional De Plantas Medicinales en Villahermosa, Tabasco, México, 2005, CD-ROM, 13- 25.
Archeological evidence suggests that chilies (Capsicum species, family Solanaceae) were part of the diet of people living 9,000 years ago in Mexico, and Central and South America; and it is believed that Columbus took Capsicum plants back with him to Europe at the end of the 15th century.
We tried the hot-pepper stuff once, to keep the squirrly critters from digging in our potted plants. They dug more! -S.P.McCool / http://www.swamphen.net/ Crawfordville, Florida, USA - Wakulla County 30.166ºN 84.402ºW - elv.
Folk Botanical Wisdom: Towards Global Markets58 Ethnobotany of chile piquin (Capsicum annuum var. aviculare) of the Sierra Gorda of Queretaro, Mexico. (Poster) H.