Laura Lagomarsino, PhD
@tropicalbotany.bsky.social
Botanist. Evolutionary biologist. Associate Professor and Herbarium Director, LSU. Passionate about plants, inclusive mentoring, and puzzles. I don't know what I'm doing here.
https://www.lagolab.net
https://www.lagolab.net
You can probably get them dried as manzanos or frozen as rocotos at the Latin store close to you!
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
You can probably get them dried as manzanos or frozen as rocotos at the Latin store close to you!
They’re good! They can be quite hot but sometimes are sweeter, and have a bit of fruitiness to them. They’re very fleshy, unlike the varieties of the more common C. annuum. Rocoto in Peru = Chile manzano in Mexico = C. Pubescens in botany.
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 AM
They’re good! They can be quite hot but sometimes are sweeter, and have a bit of fruitiness to them. They’re very fleshy, unlike the varieties of the more common C. annuum. Rocoto in Peru = Chile manzano in Mexico = C. Pubescens in botany.
I have no pony in this game (though 1 seems likely to be correct). However, our 90+ pound dog Rocoto is named after a chile pepper and we sometimes call him Megachile (second pronunciation) 😅.
November 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I have no pony in this game (though 1 seems likely to be correct). However, our 90+ pound dog Rocoto is named after a chile pepper and we sometimes call him Megachile (second pronunciation) 😅.
They have plenty of those too! But also one of the world's finest botanical libraries.
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
They have plenty of those too! But also one of the world's finest botanical libraries.
That would still be a Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh from me, but the next post down that thread suggests that it was a rewrite... Don't really feel like factchecking, when either way I'm somehow the boogie man and I don't have a NYT subscription anymore anyhow.
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After the public told the New York Times how offensive its headline was, they changed it on the homepage. (The original is still on the actual story, last I checked.)
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
That would still be a Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh from me, but the next post down that thread suggests that it was a rewrite... Don't really feel like factchecking, when either way I'm somehow the boogie man and I don't have a NYT subscription anymore anyhow.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM