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Scotch bonnet (also known as Bonney peppers, or Caribbean red peppers) [1] is a variety of chili pepper named for its supposed resemblance to a Scottish tam o' shanter bonnet. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is native to the Americas —a cultivar of Capsicum chinense , which originated in the Amazon Basin , Central and South America .
The Scoville scale is a measurement of pungency ... depending on the taster's palate and number of mouth heat ... Habanero chili, [25] Scotch bonnet pepper [25 ...
Scoville scale 100,000 – 500,000 [ 1 ] SHU Adjuma , adjoema , aji umba , or ojemma [ 2 ] is a variety of Capsicum chinense chili pepper , originally from Brazil .
On the Scoville scale, which measures the spiciness of a pepper, a Carolina Reaper pepper is around 1.7 million Scoville Heat Units, while a Naga Viper is around 1.4 million units. A jalapeño ...
Scoville scale 1,000–1,500 SHU New Mexico No. 9 , also known as NuMex No. 9 , Number 9 pepper or simply No. 9 , was the first of the New Mexican chile pod types of chile peppers .
This is a list of Capsicum cultivars belonging to the five major species of cultivated peppers (genus Capsicum): C. annuum, C. chinense, C. baccatum, C. frutescens, and C. pubescens. Due to the large and changing number of cultivars , and the variation of cultivar namings in different regions, this list only gives a few examples of the ...
Before the early 1990s, there were only two peppers which had been measured above 350,000 SHU, the Scotch bonnet and the habanero. [2] California farmer Frank Garcia used a sport of a habanero to develop a new cultivar, the Red Savina ( C. chinense ), [ 3 ] which was measured at 570,000 in 1994.
Chimayó peppers are of medium pungency, and have a heat level ranging from 4,000 to 6,000 on the Scoville scale. [7] Chimayó pepper plants typically grow to a height of roughly 45 to 60 centimetres (18 to 24 in), while the fruits reach 10 to 15 cm (4 to 6 in) in length [ 8 ] [ 3 ] and 3–4 cm (1– 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) wide.