# Avelar

Also known as Avelar, pimentão Avelar.
Species: Capsicum annuum.

Avelar is a Capsicum annuum selection from Avelar, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Capsi has not yet documented heat for this variety. Flavor is sweet. Used for fresh market.

## Heritage

Selection

Avelar is a selection of Casca Dura.

Parent:
- Casca Dura (Not a named variety)

Peppers bred from Avelar:
- [TAM Jalapeño](https://web.thecapsi.app/pepper/tam-jalapeno)

Farmer selections in the Spanish Casca Dura sweet-pepper type produced Avelar, named for the Rio de Janeiro district where it was grown. WorldVeg holds it as a Brazilian traditional cultivar, with no named cross.

## Page sources

- [Embrapa Hortaliças market history: Spanish Casca Dura introductions, farmer selections named for the grower or the place, Avelar in Rio de Janeiro, conical thick-fleshed fruit.](https://revistacultivar.com.br/artigos/tendencias-de-mercado)
- [Melo USP/ESALQ thesis: Casca Dura from farmer selection of Spanish sweet pepper; PVY selections in that type include Avelar.](https://teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/11/11137/tde-20231122-093351/publico/Melo-ArleteMarchiTavares.pdf)
- [WorldVeg Genesys VI014393 / C00181: Capsicum annuum accession AVELAR, traditional cultivar, provenance Brazil, acquired 9 Mar 1982.](https://www.genesys-pgr.org/10.18730/11WEYD)
- [Fernandes and Haag 1972, Anais ESALQ 29: mineral nutrition of sweet-pepper varieties Avelar and Ikeda; blossom-end rot resistance.](https://www.scielo.br/j/aesalq/a/M5rbP9vhHdMM7qbX7snDZVs/?lang=pt)
- [Zitter and Cook 1973, Phytopathology 63:1211: Brazilian Capsicum annuum cultivar, pepper mottle tolerance a single recessive gene.](https://www.apsnet.org/publications/phytopathology/backissues/Documents/1973Abstracts/Phyto63_1211.htm)
- [Guerini and Murphy 1999, Journal of General Virology: Avelar restricts systemic movement of pepper mottle virus.](https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/0022-1317-80-10-2785)
- [Village of Avelar, Paty do Alferes, Rio de Janeiro, the namesake place.](https://mapcarta.com/19288254)

## FAQ
### How hot is Avelar?

Capsi has not yet documented heat for this variety. Capsi uses a sourced range and a trust tier, not a single marketing number. How we verify heat: https://web.thecapsi.app/learn/heat-and-capsaicin/how-we-measure-heat

### What does Avelar taste like?

Brazilian papers class Avelar as pimentão, a sweet pepper, and do not publish a tasting note.

### How do I grow Avelar?

Avelar: subtropical climate, full sun.

### What can I substitute for Avelar?

Capsi does not have that recorded yet.

Page: https://web.thecapsi.app/pepper/avelar
Catalog: https://web.thecapsi.app/data