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Herbón pepper

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Herbón pepper

Curiosity · Padrón, Sar, A Coruña

A variety of pepper covered by a designation of origin whose area takes in Padrón, Dodro, Rois, Pontecesures and Valga; it comes from the seeds brought from Mexico by the Franciscans of the Herbón convent in the 17th century.

Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lmbuga) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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