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Carolina Reaper. 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 ...
Hottest chili pepper. Mature Carolina Reaper, listed by Guinness as the hottest chili pepper from 2017-2023. Amongst growers in the US, the UK, and Australia, there has been a competition since the 1990s to grow the hottest chili pepper. Chili pepper species and cultivars registering over 1,000,000 Scoville Heat units (SHU) are called "super-hots".
Ed Currie (born August 18, 1963) is an American chili pepper breeder who is the founder and president of the PuckerButt Pepper Company. He is best known for breeding the Carolina Reaper which was the hottest chili pepper in the world until, in 2023, Pepper X, also bred by Currie, took over as the hottest chili pepper, as recognized by Guinness World Records.
Origin. Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States. Heat. Exceptionally hot. Scoville scale. 2,693,000 [1] SHU. Pepper X is a cultivar of Capsicum chili pepper bred by the American chili breeder Ed Currie, the creator of the Carolina Reaper. [2] [3] [4] In 2023, Guinness World Records recognized it as the world's hottest chili pepper.
Scoville scale. 1,000,000 - 1,463,700 SHU. Sprouts. The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T is a Capsicum chinense cultivar that is among the hottest peppers in the world. [1] It is a hybrid pepper and thus not indigenous to anywhere; however, its hybrid parentage is derived from the Trinidad Moruga scorpion indigenous to Trinidad and Tobago. [2]
There’s a new hottest chili pepper in town, created by the South Carolina man who made the Carolina Reaper. SC creator of Carolina Reaper has new hottest pepper on Earth. See it tried on YouTube ...
1,207,764 average SHU. The Trinidad Moruga scorpion (a cultivar of Capsicum chinense) is a chili pepper native to the village of Moruga, Trinidad and Tobago. In 2012, New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute identified the Trinidad Moruga scorpion as the hottest chili pepper at that time, with heat of 1.2 million Scoville heat units ...
List of Capsicum cultivars. Bird's eye (green), ' Madame Jeanette ' (yellow), and cayenne peppers (red) This is a list of Capsicum cultivars belonging to the five major species of cultivated peppers (genus Capsicum ): C. annuum, C. chinense, C. baccatum, C. frutescens, and C. pubescens.