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  2. Ghost pepper - Wikipedia

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    The ghost pepper. Ghost peppers are used as a food and a spice. [6] It is used in both fresh and dried forms to heat up curries, pickles and chutneys. It is popularly used in combination with pork or dried or fermented fish. The pepper's intense heat makes it a fixture in competitive chili pepper eating. [24]

  3. List of Capsicum cultivars - Wikipedia

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    Capsicum frutescens, which includes the Tabasco pepper and many of the peppers grown in India; [6] sometimes not distinguished as a species separate from C. annuum. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Capsicum pubescens , which includes the rocoto and manzano pepper, are distinctive plants, having violet flowers, black seeds, and hairy dark green leaves, and grow as a ...

  4. Hottest chili pepper - Wikipedia

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    In 2012, the Chili Pepper Institute called the Trinidad Moruga scorpion the new hottest pepper, saying it had been measured at 2 million SHU, the first time the 2-million mark had been reached. [3] Many of the cultivars developed in the attempt to produce ever-hotter peppers are hybrids of chilies traditionally grown in India and Trinidad. [6]

  5. Naga Morich - Wikipedia

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    Like many varieties of the Chinense species, the Naga Morich is a small-medium shrub with large leaves, small, five-petaled flowers, and blisteringly hot fruit. It differs from the Bhut Jolokia and Bih Jolokia in that it is slightly smaller with a pimply ribbed texture as opposed to the smoother flesh of the other two varieties.

  6. Naga Viper pepper - Wikipedia

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    The Naga Viper pepper is a hot chili pepper developed in England. In 2011, it was recorded as the "World's Hottest Chili" by the Guinness World Records with a rating of 1,382,118 Scoville heat units (SHU), [ 1 ] but was surpassed in SHU by the Carolina Reaper , in 2017, and again by the latest world record holder Pepper X in 2023.

  7. Capsicum annuum - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Anandita Dutta Tamuly - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, Anandita had entered the Limca Book of Records by eating 60 ghost chillies in two minutes and smearing 12 chillies in her eyes in one minute flat. [1] Since then she has practised this in an attempt to enter the Guinness World Records by beating South Africa’s Anita Crafford, who created a record by eating eight jalapenos in a minute in 2002.

  9. Capsicum baccatum - Wikipedia

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    Capsicum baccatum is still referred to as ají, while other peppers are referred to as "pepper" via the Spanish conquistadors noting the similarity in heat sensation to black pepper. [ 9 ] The Latin binomial name is composed of Capsicum , from the Greek kapos , and Baccatum , meaning "berry-like."