List of chili pepper cultivars
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This is a list of chili pepper varieties / cultivars / breeds.
Please include, when possible, either scoville rating or equivalent separated by – hyphens – , description of shape and size of its fruit, as well as a pic of the fruit.
When possible, please avoid adding the redundancy of the word "pepper" after the fruit's name. For example, "Jalapeño" instead of "Jalapeño pepper".
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[edit] Capsicum annuum (bell peppers, paprika, et cetera)
[edit] Hot
- Achar – 10 cm (4 in) long, mildly hot, from India.
- Afghan hot – 6 cm (2 in) long, from Afghanistan.
- Anaheim – 1000 to 10,000 scoville – aka New Mexico Chile – moderately hot, smooth, narrow fruit 18 cm (7 in) long, from California.
- Ancho – 1 – mildly hot, used for chili relleno, also dried to make chile powder. Also called poblano, but only when fresh.
- Bolivian rainbow – small, cone-shaped fruit starts out purple, then turns yellow and red upon ripening, extremely hot, usually ornamental.
- Bulgarian carrot – very hot – as the name implies, orange fruit looks almost identical to carrots. From Bulgaria.
- Cascabel – hot – "sleigh bell" peppers, often dried so the seeds rattle inside when shaken.
- Image:Chiltepin.150x.jpg Chiltepin – 100,000 scoville – pea-sized fruit.
- Filus Blue – This ornamental pepper has blue-violet-tinged leaves, and small round fruit which is blue/purple until it ripens to red.
- Fish pepper – used by poor urbanites in Baltimore area to flavor seafood. Very hot
- Hungarian wax pepper – 15 cm to 20 cm (6 to 8 in) fruit, used for pickling, medium hot
- Jalapeño – 2,500 to 10,000 scoville – most famous "Mexican" hot pepper.
- Kashmir – moderately hot – 5 cm (2 in) long, strongly crimson fruit is so popular in India that "mock kashmiri" peppers are sold as competition.
- Largo Purple – hot – This plant actually has purple leaves. Peppers are cone-shaped and red.
- NuMex Big Jim – medium heat – huge fruit, 30 cm (12 in) long, grows unusually well in hot or dry weather, as well as thriving in normal conditions.
- Image:Numex.twilight.100x.jpg Numex twilight – hot, usually ornamental, tiny upright tapered peppers which start purple, change to yellow, then orange and finally, red, creating a rainbow effect.
- Penis – hot – this orange pepper, 8-17 cm (3-7 in) long, is shaped as its name implies. Normally grown ornamentally.
- Poinsettia – very hot – upright, skinny red peppers grow in clusters, resembling the flowers of their namesake. Usually ornamental, but edible.
- Royal Black – very hot – tiny black fruit.
- Serrano – 20,000 scoville – 5 cm (2 inch) long red, tapered fruit, extremely hot.
- Image:Thai.hot.75x.jpg Thai hot – 100,000 scoville – small, hanging tapered peppers, mature to red, among the hottest breeds.
- Thai ornamental – like Thai hot, but upright peppers maturing through yellow, orange, and then red.
- Trifetti – leaves are white, purple, and green, fruit matures from purple to red.
[edit] Sweet
- Albino – 40-50 cm (18 in) bushes produce white peppers, which turn red upon maturing.
- Apple – sweet pimento-type fruit.
- Big Jim – 20 cm (8 in) long non-bell, sweet.
- Chile Negro – 250 scoville – Long black peppers, ten inches or more, barely detectable pungency.
- Chilly Chile – sweet, usually ornamental, skinny 5 cm (2 in) long fruit, matures yellow, orange, and red, covering the bush.
- Image:Medusa.80x.jpg Medusa – skinny, long upright fruit in green, yellow, orange, and red creates a colorful snake-hair effect. Sweet, often grown as ornamental.
- Tangerine – a chinese variety of the pimento, turns yellow upon ripening.
- Thai sweet – as name implies, a sweet, tapered pepper from Thailand.
[edit] Bell
- Amethyst – blocky blue/green peppers mature to red.
- Chocolate bell – brown bell pepper, normal bell flavor.
- Giant Hungarian – large fruit, matures to red.
- Marengo – green bell pepper which matures only to yellow.
- Purple bell – blue-purple fruit, normal size.
- Tiny bell – very small, four-lobed fruit.
[edit] Capsicum chinense (habanero, scotch bonnets, etc)
[edit] Hot
- Bolivian Red – 5 cm (2 in) long; from Bolivia.
- Carribean Red – 445,000 scoville – perhaps the hottest pepper, a breed of habanero about 4 cm (1.5 in) wide and 2.5 cm (1 in) long.
- Charapita – 2.5 cm (1 in) long; from Peru, very similar to wild species.
- Cheira Bell – over 2.5 cm (1 in) long, medium hot; from Brazil.
- Chombo – over 5 cm (2 in) long, from Panama.
- Congo – 7 cm (3 in) long, 9 cm (3.5 in) broad, very hot; from Trinidad and Tobago.
- Cumari o Passarinho – 2.5 cm (1 in) long, very hot; from Brazil.
- Datil – 9 cm (3.5 in) long; from St. Augustine, Florida.
- Fatalii – 7 cm (3 in) long, very hot; from central Africa.
- Image:Habanero.jpg Habanero – over 5 cm (2 in) long, 80,000 scoville.
- Habanero brown – 200,000 scoville.
- Habanero red – 285,000 scoville.
- Image:Naga.jolokia.75x.jpg Naga Jolokia – 800,000 scoville – unconfirmed as the very hottest pepper.
- Peruvian Golden – 2.5 cm (1 in) long, very hot; from Peru.
- Scotch bonnet – 200,000 scoville – Famous as one of the hottest peppers, small red fruit similar to habanero
- Image:Red.savina.450x.jpg Red Savina – 500,000 scoville – Bred from habanero, to be hotter and larger, perhaps the hottest chili pepper.
- Shiny Red – 2.5 cm (1 in) long, very hot; from Peru.
- Siling Labuyo – 2 cm (1 in) long; from Philippines.
[edit] Sweet
- Numex Suave Orange – a habanero-type pepper, unusual for being sweet instead of hot.
- Seasoning Pepper – 10 cm (4 in) long; from Trinidad and Tobago.
[edit] Capsicum frutescens (tabasco, cayenne, et cetera)
[edit] Hot
- Aci civri – 15 cm (6 in) long, skinny hot pepper, from Turkey.
- Aji Chuncho – 2.5 cm (1 in) long; from Peru.
- Angkor Sunrise – 2.5 cm (1 in) long; from Cambodia.
- Image:Large Cayenne.jpg Cayenne – 90,000 scoville
- Charleston Hot – 70,000 scoville.
- Chile de Arbol – 30,000 scoville – aka pico de pajaro, and cola de rata – a cayenne – fruit 3 inches (8 cm) long, 1/3 inches (1 cm) wide, usually dried and ground for soups.
- Diente de Perro – 2.5 cm (1 in) long, name means "dog's tooth"; from Guatemala.
- Greenleaf Tabasco – 2.5 cm (1 in) long; from Alabama, bred for resistance to tobacco etch virus.
- Malagueta – 2.5 cm (1 in) long; from Brazil.
- Nagahari - 855,000 scoville
- Image:Tabasco.75x.jpg Tabasco – 7 cm (3 in) long; from Mexico, the famous tabasco sauce pepper, small tapered red fruit on plants up to 1.3 m (four ft) tall.
- Wild Grove – ornamental plant, similar to Tabasco.
- Zimbabwe Bird – 2.5 cm (1 in) long; from Zimbabwe.
[edit] Capsicum baccatum (aji)
[edit] Hot
- Aji (red)
- Amarillo (yellow) – 50,000 scoville.
- Ayucullo – small, oval, originally a wild pepper from Peru.
- Bird – the original wild form of C. baccatum, has tiny, but very hot, fruit.
- Cereza – extremely hot.
- Chombo – among the hottest peppers.
[edit] Sweet
- Dulce – very popular sweet pepper in South America, and one of few making inroads in US gardening, looks like habanero, but is very mild, almost sweet.
- Brown – sweet, standard aji shape.
[edit] Capsicum pubescens (rocoto)
[edit] Hot
- Bellanos – hot – large enough to stuff.
- Image:Rocoto.75x.jpg Rocoto – quite hot – an almost exclusively latino cuisine pepper.
- Rocoto red.
- Rocoto yellow.
