Chili Pepper series. Chili Varieties. by Chef Lippe

Capsicum Annuum

Species native to Mexico and Central America, it is the most commonly cultivated probably because of its easy adaptability to different climates. The ease of cultivation and limited spiciness makes it accessible to everyone.

Aleppo – Syria. 5000 – 10000 SHU

Anaheim – New Mexico. 500 – 2500 SHU

Ancho – Puebla, Mexico 1000-1500 SHU

Bali Sidakarya – Bali, Indonesia. 100-500 SHU

Bell peppers – Universal. 0 – 0 SHU

Bangalore Whippet’s Tail – India. 20000 – 50000 SHU

Berbere – Ethiopia. 1000 – 5000 SHU

Black Hungarian – Hungary. 5000 – 10000 SHU

Black Pearl – USA. 20000 – 30000 SHU

Bolivian Rainbow – Bolivia. 5000 – 30000 SHU

Bonda Ma Jacques – St. Lucia. 200000 – 300000 SHU

Buran – Poland. 0 – 0 SHU

Cabai Berah Mesar – Malaysia. 5000 – 30000 SHU

Cabe Keriting – Indonesia. 85000 – 115000 SHU

Caloro – USA. 1000 – 5000 SHU

Cascabel – Mexico. 2500 – 8000 SHU

Cascabella – Hungary. 1500 – 4000 SHU

Cayenne – French Guiana. 30000 – 50000 SHU

Chao Tian Jiao – Sichuan, China. 30000 – 40000 SHU

Charleston Hot – South Carolina. 70000 – 100000 SHU

Chervena Chushka – Bulgaria. 0 – 0 SHU

Cheyenne – USA. 30000 – 50000 SHU

Chi-Chien – China. 30000 – 50000 SHU

Chilauaucle – Oxaca, Mexico. 900 – 2000 SHU

Chiltepin – Texas. 50000 – 75000 SHU

Chimayo – Mexico. 500 – 1000 SHU

Chipotle – Mexico. 2500 – 8000 SHU

Corno di Toro Rosso – Italy. 0 -500 SHU

Cubanelle – Dominican Republic. 0 – 1000 SHU

Dundicut – Pakistan. 20000 – 40000 SHU

De Arbol – Mexico. 15000 - 30000

Fish Pepper – Africa, Baltimore, Philadelphia. 45000 – 75000 SHU

Fresno – California. 2500 – 1000 SHU

Georgia Flame – Republic of Georgia. 1000 – 1500 SHU

Goat Horn – Taiwan. 3000 – 5000 SHU

Goat’s Weed – Venezuela. 20000 – 40000 SHU

Guajillo – Mexico. 2500 – 5000 SHU

Guntur Sannam – India. 25000 – 40000 SHU

Hanoi Red – Viet Nam. 10000 – 30000 SHU

Hot Banana – Hungary. 500 1500 SHU

Hot Portugal – USA. 5000 – 30000 SHU

Hot Wax – Hungary. 2500 – 8000 SHU

Jalapeño – 2500 – 22000 SHU

Japones, Santaka – Mexico, Japan. 40000 – 75000 SHU

Jimmy Nardello (Slow Food Ark of Taste) – Italy, Connecticut. 0 – 0 SHU

Khorika Jolokia – India. 2500 - 5000 SHU

Kung Pao – Thailand. 8000 – 10000 SHU

Maras Biber – Turkey. 30000 – 50000 SHU

Naga Jolokia – India. 850000 – 900000 HSU

Navajo – USA. 3000 – 9000 SHU

Numex Piñata - New Mexico. 45000 – 50000 SHU

Onza – Mexico. 5000 – 30000 SHU

Orozco – Eastern Europe. 5000 – 30000 SHU

Pasilla – Mexico. 1000 – 4000 SHU

Pequin – Mexico. 30000 - 60000 SHU

Peter Pepper – Texas. 5000 – 30000 SHU

Poblano – Mexico. 1000 – 2000 SHU

Poinsettia – Japan. 1300 -2500 SHU

Prairie Fire – USA. 5000 – 30000 SHU

Prik – Thailand. 50000 – 70000 SHU

Pusa Jwala – India. 30000 - 50000 SHU

Quadrato D’Asti – Italy. 0 – 0 SHU

Red Cherry – Mexico, Europe. 1000 – 3500 SHU

Rooster Spur – England. 120000 – 170000 SHU

San Ardo – USA. 1500 - 4000 SHU

Santa Fe Grande USA. 500 – 750 SHU

Santaka – Japan. 40000 – 50000 SHU

Satan’s Kiss – Italy. 5000 – 30000 SHU

Serrano – Mexico. 8000 – 25000 SHU

Shishito – Japan. 50 – 200 SHU

Sparkler – England. 100000 – 160000 SHU

Stumpy – England. 10000 – 27000 SHU

Sweet Banana – Hungary. 0 – 0 SHU

Thai Burapa – Thailand. 50000 – 100000 SHU

Thai Dragon – Thailand. 50000 * 100000 SHU

Tian Ying – Henan, China. 23000 – 25000 SHU

Tien Tsin – China 50000 – 75000 SHU

Urfa Biber – Turkey. 30000 – 50000 SHU

Yatsufusa – Japan. 40000 – 75000 SHU

Capsicum Baccatum

Original species from Bolivia and Peru. In South America many varieties of this species are called ”Aji”. This species has one of the most flavorful varieties, with a wide range of colors, shapes and flavors, ranging from sour to sweet and fruity. They are in fact widely used in Bolivian and Peruvian cuisine.

Aji Amarillo – Bolivia, Peru. 30000 -50000 SHU

Aji Panca – Bolivia, Peru. 10000 – 30000 SHU

Cacho de Cabra – Chile. 1500 – 5000 SHU

Chayusa – Brazil. 10000 -30000 SHU

Corona de Obispo – Puerto Rico, Barbados. 5000 – 30000 SHU

Earbob – USA. 2500 – 10000 SHU

Lemon Drop – Peru, Bolivia. 15000 – 30000 SHU

Peppadew – Limpopo, South Africa. 1000 – 2000 SHU

Sella Criolla – Bolivia. 30000 – 100000 SHU

Ubatuba Cambuci – Brazil. 0 – 500 SHU

Capsicum Chinense

This species is native from the Amazon but is now one of the main species cultivated in the Caribbean, Mexico in the area east of the Andes, India Asia and Indonesia. Within this species are the hottest varieties ever.

Beni Highlands – Bolivia. 30000 – 50000 SHU

Capezzoli di Scimmia – Bolivia. 100000 – 150000 SHU

Caribbean West Indies – Antigua. 200000 – 250000 SHU

Carolina Reaper- South Carolina. 1569300 – 2400000 SHU

Cheeky – England. 50000 – 70000 SHU

Chupetinho – Brazil. 20000 -30000 SHU

Coffee Bean – England. 50000 – 77000 SHU

Congo Yellow – Trinidad. 150000 -300000 SHU

Dallhe Khursani – India, Nepal. 50000 – 100000 SHU

Datil – Cuba. 100000 – 30000 SHU

Devil’s Tongue – USA. 125000 – 325000 SHU

Fatalii – Africa. 200000 -325000 SHU

Habanero – Mexico, USA, Amazon, Caribbean, Africa. 500 – 577000 SHU

Harold St. Barts – St. Barthelemey, Antilles. 150000 -250000 SHU

Infinity Chili – England. 900000 – 1067286 SHU

Jamaican Hot – Jamaica. 300000 – 470000 SHU

Lantern Orange – Peru. 150000 – 400000 SHU

Madame Jeanette – Suriname. 100000 – 350000 SHU

Moruga – Trinidad. 900000 – 1300000 SHU

Murici – Amazon. Brazil. 20000 – 50000 SHU

Murupi – Amazon, Brazil. 500 – 1000SHU

Naga – England, Spain, India, Bangladesh. 850000 – 1349000 SHU

Nagabon Jolokia – Australia. 500000 -800000 SHU

Pimenta da Neide – Brazil. 150000 – 250000 SHU

Scorpion (Moruga Scorpion) – Trinidad and Tobago. 1000000 – 14637000 SHU

Scotch Bonnet – Jamaica. 100000 – 350000 SHU

Snow White – Brazil. 250 – 350000 SHU

7 pod Douglah – Trinidad. 1500000 - 1853936 SHU

Suriname Yellow – Suriname. 100000 – 350000 SHU

Trinidad Perfume – Trinidad. 500 – 1000 SHU

Capsicum Frutescens

Species native to Brazil Mexico and Central America. Grows well in all tropical and subtropical regions, is in fact a species much cultivated in South Asia and Southeast Asia. This follows the species Capsicum chinense by degree of spiciness.

Bird’s Eye – Sudan, zimbawe, Africa. 50000 – 300000 SHU

Cabai Burong – Malaysia. 5000 – 30000 SHU

Cabai Burung Puthi – Malaysia. 30000 – 50000 SHU

Kurnool – India. 30000 – 50000 SHU

Malagueta – Brazil. 60000 – 100000 SHU

New Delhi Long – India. 5000 – 30000 SHU

Peri Peri – Mozambique. 50000 – 175000 SHU

Peruvian Purple – Peru. 15000 – 20000 SHU

Tabasco – USA. 30000 – 50000 SHU

Thai Bankok – Thailand. 15000 – 30000 SHU

Wiri Wiri – Guyana. 130000 – 150000 SHU

Capsicum Pubescens

Species native to the slopes of the South American Andes. Cultivated by the Incas for thousands of years.

Manzano – Andes. 12000 – 30000 SHU

Rocoto (locoto) – Peru, Bolivia. 1500 – 250000 SHU

San Isidro – La Palma, Canary Islands. 30000 – 50000 SHU

Sukanya – Andes, Australia. 50000 * 250000 SHU

Hybrid Capsicum

Ghost Pepper – Bhut Jolokia – Assam, India. 855000 – 1041427 SHU

Interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in the Northeast Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland and Manipur as well as in Nepal. It is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense and Capsicum frutescens . In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was the world's hottest chili pepper, 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce. The ghost chili is rated at more than 1 million Scoville Heat Units (SHUs). Since then Scorpion and Carolina Reaper peppers have claimed that title.

Wild species

Species of the Andean region and in other areas of central South America:

Capsicum chacoense - northern Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay

Capsicum cardenasii (ulupica) - Bolivia

Capsicum eximium - northern Argentina, Bolivia

Capsicum tovarii - Peru

Capsicum galapagoense - Ecuador

Capsicum coccineum - Bolivia, Peru

Capsicum dimorphum - Colombia

Capsicum geminifolium - Colombia, Ecuador

Capsicum hookerianum - Ecuador

Capsicum scolnikianum - Peru

Capsicum caballeroi - Bolivia

Capsicum ceratocalyx – Bolivia

Species of south-eastern Brazil:

Capsicum buforum

Capsicum praetermissum

Capsicum flexuosum

Capsicum campylopodium

Capsicum cornutum synonymous with C.dusenii

Capsicum admirable

Capsicum schottianum

Capsicum villosum

Capsicum recurvatum

Capsicum hunzikerianum

Capsicum pereirae

Capsicum friburgense

Species in the north-east of Brazil and Venezuela:

Capsicum parvifolium

Species of northern South America and Central America:

Capsicum ciliatum

Capsicum lanceolatum - Mexico, Guatemala.