A word to contemplate: pubescens

[NNadir]

I came across the following text:

Millions of tons of pubescens were used for papermaking and other industries per year, with the generation of a great amount of pubescens wastes. Therefore, it is meaningful to find a proper way to use pubescens.

...in a paper about, um, pubescens, titled thusly:

Effects of MgCl2 Solution Pretreatment at Room Temperature on the Pyrolytic Behavior of Pubescens and the Properties of Bio-oil Obtained (Hu et al., Energy & Fuels 2020, 34, 12665−12677.

So I asked myself, "Self, what the hell are pubescens?"

Sounds dirty to be honest, millions of tons dirty apparently.

It turns out it's a pepper plant, a hairy pepper plant, Capsicum pubescens, native to Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia.

One learns something every day, and then you die.

Capsicum pubescens

[Marcuse]

1. Ah, now I get it

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. I am growing a capsicum pubescens - Rocoto - in my garden. Lovely plant

fuzzy stems and leaves, purple flowers, and unusually, black seeds in the ripe peppers!

[regnaD kciN]

3. So, the past was the prepubescens era?