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Piment Gorria
Mild · 2K SHU
Piment Gorria is the heirloom Capsicum annuum variety behind the famous Piment d'Espelette spice. It produces elongated bright red pods with mild heat and a fruity, slightly smoky flavor. Cultivated for centuries in the French Basque region, it is central to Basque cuisine when fresh or dried.
Jalapeño
Medium · 25K SHU
The Jalapeño is the world’s most popular medium-hot chili — famous for its bright, grassy flavor when green and sweeter profile when red. It is the classic pepper for nachos, poppers, salsas, and chipotle (smoked dried jalapeños).
Sweet Bonnet
Mild · 375 SHU
Sweet Bonnet is a mild Capsicum chinense grown for the squat Scotch Bonnet shape and Caribbean fruit flavor without the usual burn. Ripe pods are small, wrinkled, and red.
Chocolate Habanero
Hot · 301K SHU
The Chocolate Habanero is a dark brown cultivar of the habanero pepper (Capsicum chinense) from the Caribbean. It is valued for its intense heat and earthy, smoky flavor over a sweet fruity base. Plants produce lantern-shaped pods and are used in salsas, hot sauces, and Jamaican jerk.
Blue Ghost Peach
Very Hot · 600K SHU
A dark-foliage Capsicum chinense ghost-family pepper whose pods shift from purple to peach. Growers keep it for ornamental plants, fruit-forward heat, and heavy yields, though seed lots are still only partly stable.
Foodarama Yellow Scotch Bonnet
Hot · 275K SHU
Foodarama Yellow Scotch Bonnet is a yellow-orange chinense from Houston with a sweet citrus flavor. The plants are tall and productive in a long warm season.
Trinidad Scorpion
Very Hot · 1.0M SHU
The Trinidad Scorpion is a legendary superhot chili from Trinidad, once one of the hottest peppers in the world. It is known for its extreme heat and surprisingly complex fruity-sweet flavor with a scorpion-tail shape.
Orange Rocoto
Hot · 35K SHU
The Orange Rocoto is a vibrant orange, apple-shaped pepper from the Peruvian Andes belonging to the Capsicum pubescens species. It offers thick, juicy flesh and a fruity, medium-hot flavor, making it ideal for stuffing and sauces. This cold-tolerant perennial can produce for many years.
Sugar Rush Stripey
Hot · 53K SHU
The Sugar Rush Stripey Pepper is a visually striking Capsicum baccatum cultivar featuring creamy peach pods with bold red vertical stripes and a sweet, fruity flavor balanced by moderate heat. Developed in Finland as a striped sport of the Sugar Rush Peach, it offers high yields and ornamental appeal alongside its culinary value. This relatively new variety stabilizes well from seed and performs admirably with vigorous growth and high productivity.
Habanada Pepper
Sweet
The Habanada is the world's first truly heatless habanero, delivering bright tropical, fruity, and floral flavors without any burn. Bred at Cornell University by Michael Mazourek and released in 2014, it offers the signature habanero taste unmasked by capsaicin.
Megatron Jalapeño
Medium · 5K SHU
Megatron is a Sakata F1 jalapeño grown for extra-large, thick-walled fruit on a compact plant. Gardeners pick it green for stuffing and grilling, or leave pods on the plant to turn red.
Pseudo Spiral Peach
Very Hot · 1.5M SHU
A South Florida grower selection: peach Naga-Bubblegum pods that skip the bleeding calyx. Townshend nicknamed it a Fake Death Spiral; it is a rare, still-variable C. chinense superhot.
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