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Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum, a chili-pepper variety of Capsicum annuum, is native to southern North America and northern South America. [2] Common names include chiltepín, Indian pepper, grove pepper, chiltepe, and chile tepín, as well as turkey, bird’s eye, or simply bird peppers (due to their consumption and spread by wild birds; "unlike humans birds are impervious to the heat of ...
The Fresno chile or Fresno chili pepper (/ ˈ f r ɛ z n oʊ / FREZ-noh) is a medium-sized cultivar of Capsicum annuum. It should not be confused with the Fresno Bell pepper. [ 1 ] It is often confused with the jalapeño pepper but has thinner walls, often has milder heat, and takes less time to mature.
In British English, the sweet varieties are called "peppers" [12] and the hot varieties "chillies", [13] whereas in Australian English and Indian English, the name "capsicum" is commonly used for bell peppers exclusively and "chilli" is often used to encompass the hotter varieties. The plant is a tender perennial subshrub, with a densely ...
There are thousands of different types of peppers, so how do you choose the right one? To make it even more confusing, one pepper variety may have one name when it's fresh and another when it's ...
Capsicum annuum, commonly known as paprika, chili pepper, red pepper, sweet pepper, jalapeño, cayenne, or bell pepper, [5] is a fruiting plant from the family Solanaceae (nightshades), within the genus Capsicum which is native to the northern regions of South America and to southwestern North America. The plant produces berries of many colors ...
Cultivated baccatum (C. baccatum var. pendulum) is the domesticated pepper of choice of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Chile. [3] The Moche culture often represented fruits and vegetables in their art, including ají amarillo peppers. [4] South American farmers also grow C. baccatum as ornamental plants for export. [5]
The pepper has a Scoville scale rating of 10,000-23,000 SHU [1] depending on cultivation and preparation, making it more spicy than the jalapeño. The peter pepper has both ornamental [2] and culinary use. Common uses include pickling, [3] salsa, and chili pepper. [6] It can be used like jalapeño or serrano peppers. [6] Peter peppers
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