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The ghost pepper, [2] [3] also known as bhüt jolokia (lit. ' Bhutanese pepper ' or 'Ghost pepper' in Assamese [ 4 ] ), is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense and Capsicum frutescens .
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.
Capsicum chinense 'Naga Jolokia' কেপছিকাম, Kepsikam Bell pepper: Capsicum annuum: ... Black pepper: Piper nigrum: Jolokiya Chili pepper: Halodhi ...
The Habanaga is a cultivar of the chili pepper Capsicum chinense. This pepper was developed in New Mexico when a university student unintentionally crossed a Habanero and a Bhut Jolokia . [ 2 ] [ when?
The Red Savina pepper. In 2001, Paul Bosland, a researcher at the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University, visited India to collect specimens of ghost pepper, also called the Bhut Jolokia or Naga king chili, [4] traditionally grown near Assam, India, which was being studied by the Indian army for weaponization.
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.
[3] [9] The range of pepper heat reflected by a Scoville score is from 500 or less (sweet peppers) to over 2.6 million (Pepper X) (table below; Scoville scales for individual chili peppers are in the respective linked article). Some peppers such as the Guntur chilli and Rocoto are excluded from
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