Fruits & Vegetables Week: Capsicum chinense, the Habanero chilli

[Gurcharan Singh]

Capsicum chinense, the Habanero chilli is one of the hottest chillis, Unripe habaneros are green, maturing to orange and red, but white, brown, and pink are also seen. It is often mistakenly referred to as the hottest pepper in the world: that honor belongs to The Naga Viper which rates a 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale. the Naga Jolokia, a hybrid of C. chinense and C. frutescens, previously considered hottest comes to around 1,000, 000.  Habanero may touch 300,000 on the scale.
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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
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[tanay bose]

Thanks for the info on chilly hotness

tanay

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Tanay Bose

Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant.
Department of Botany.
University of British Columbia .
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