Habanero

Species Name: Capsicum chinense Jacquin. Color: Green maturing to yellow-orange,orange or bright red. Shape: Lantern-shaped, round or oblong, with a pointed apex. Description: Very distinctive flavor, highly aromatic. Scoville Heat Units: 100,000 – 300,000 (300,000 –550,000 Red Savina) Other Names: Congo, bonda man, Jacques, bonnie, ginnie, Guinea pepper, pimenta do chiero, siete caldos, Scotch Bonnet, pimienta do cheiro. Related Cultivars: Red Savina, chocolate habanero, yellow habanero, habanero rojo, Rica Red Most Commonly Grown In: Yucatan, Costa Rica, Belize, California, Texas, Caribbean. Habanero, meaning 'from Havana', is a distinctive, extremely hot pepper believed to originally have been taken to the Yucatan Peninsula from Cuba. GNS Spices in Southern California has developed the Red Savina, which has been recognized in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "world's hottest spice". The habanero is not the same pepper as the scotch bonnet. They are of the same species but it is not a cultivar.