Cabai Bara

Cabai Bara is a registered Indonesian rawit variety tied to PT East West Seed Indonesia under SK 874/Kpts/TP.240/7/1999. The official varietal description traces it to selection from an introduced Thai line, CR 263. It is described as an upright plant with a rounded canopy, green stems, green leaves about 8 cm long and 3.5 cm wide, white corollas, purple anthers and stigma, and slender conical fruit with a pointed tip and glossy skin. The fruit is small, about 35 mm long and 7 mm wide, with a per-fruit weight around 1.1 g, and the 1999 description gives plant height at about 55 cm, fruit yield around 0.5 kg per plant, and yield potential around 10 t/ha.

Bara has been positioned for cultivation from lowland to highland areas and is recorded as resistant or tolerant to CMV, bacterial wilt, anthracnose, and CVMV. Recent Indonesian field and community agribusiness work still describes it as a productive small-fruited rawit, with pointed glossy red fruit around 30 mm long and 4 mm wide, about 0.9 to 1.8 g per fruit, and field yield around 8.9 to 10 t/ha. Current Panah Merah material presents it as BARA F1, while registry summaries still list the 1999 release under an older description format rather than a later hybrid or free-pollinated class label. Published literature also shows a major species split, with several recent breeding papers treating Bara as C. frutescens while some other genetics work places it with C. annuum material.