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The tabasco pepper is a variety of the chili pepper species Capsicum frutescens originating in Mexico. It is best known through its use in Tabasco sauce, followed by peppered vinegar. [1] Like all C. frutescens cultivars, the tabasco plant has a typical bushy growth, which commercial cultivation makes stronger by trimming the plants. The ...
Siling labuyo is generally accepted as the world's smallest hot pepper, as the fruit often measures a mere 0.20 in (0.51 cm) in length by 0.10 in (0.25 cm) in width. [ 6 ] It is listed in the Ark of Taste international catalog of endangered heritage foods of the Philippines by the Slow Food movement.
Countries in which C. pubescens is grown. Capsicum pubescens is a plant of the genus Capsicum (pepper). The species name, pubescens, refers to the hairy leaves of this pepper.. The hairiness of the leaves, along with the black seeds, make Capsicum pubescens distinguishable from other Capsicum speci
Step out of your car in front of Tabasco's manufacturing plant on Louisiana's Avery Island and the first thing you'll notice is the sweet smell of pepper in the air. It dances on the wind ...
Tabasco is made from only 3 ingredients: salt from Avery Island, aged red peppers, and vinegar. The recipe has remained essentially the same since it was created. That happened all the way back in ...
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 ...
Capsicum frutescens is a wild chili pepper having genetic proximity to the cultivated pepper Capsicum chinense native to Central and South America. [2] Pepper cultivars of C. frutescens can be annual or short-lived perennial plants. Flowers are white with a greenish white or greenish yellow corolla, and are either insect- or self-pollinated.
Avery Island (historically French: Île Petite Anse) is a salt dome best known as the source of Tabasco sauce.Located in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States, it is about three miles (4.8 km) inland from Vermilion Bay, which opens onto the Gulf of Mexico.