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  2. Ghost pepper - Wikipedia

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    For comparison, Tabasco red pepper sauce rates at 2,500–5,000, and pure capsaicin (the chemical responsible for the pungency of pepper plants) rates at 16,000,000 SHUs. In 2005, New Mexico State University 's Chile Pepper Institute in Las Cruces, New Mexico , [ 20 ] found ghost peppers grown from seed in southern New Mexico to have a Scoville ...

  3. Scoville scale - Wikipedia

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    Pepper stand at Central Market in Houston, Texas, showing its peppers ranked on the Scoville scale The ghost pepper of Northeast India is considered to be a "very hot" pepper, at about 1 million SHU. [1] The Naga Morich, with around 1 million SHU, [2] is primarily grown in India and Bangladesh.

  4. List of Capsicum cultivars - Wikipedia

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    Capsicum annuum L., [29] hot, medium-size, green to red, and tapered [30] Also known as a 'Pulla'. Santa Fe Grande [18] Fresno The Santa Fe Grande is a very prolific variety used in the Southwestern United States. The conical, blunt fruits ripen from greenish-yellow, to orange-yellow to red. The peppers grow upright on 24-inch plants.

  5. World's hottest pepper is grown in South Carolina

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    FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) - Ed Currie holds one of his world-record Carolina Reaper peppers by the stem, which looks like the tail of a scorpion. On the other end is the bumpy, oily, fire-engine red ...

  6. Carolina Reaper - Wikipedia

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    The Carolina Reaper chili pepper is a cultivar of the Capsicum chinense plant. Developed by American breeder Ed Currie , the pepper is red and gnarled, with a bumpy texture and small pointed tail. It was the hottest chili pepper in the world according to Guinness World Records from 2013 to 2023 before it was surpassed by Pepper X , which was ...

  7. Hottest chili pepper - Wikipedia

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    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.