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More than 310 hot pepper varieties mapped.
The White Bhut Jolokia, also known as White Ghost Pepper, is a rare creamy-white ripening variant of the superhot Bhut Jolokia from Northeast India. This Capsicum chinense cultivar delivers intense heat around 1 million SHU with a fruity, citrus-forward flavor. It is prized by collectors for its striking appearance and versatility in hot sauces.
The Padrón pepper (also known as Pimiento de Padrón or Herbón pepper) is a famous Spanish heirloom variety from Galicia, celebrated for its mild, grassy flavor with an unpredictable spicy kick—famously known in Galicia as “uns pican e outros non” (“some are hot and some are not”).
The Scotch Bonnet is a fiery Caribbean chili famous for its intense tropical-fruity flavor and signature bonnet shape. It is the essential heat in Jamaican jerk seasoning, curries, and hot sauces across the West Indies.
The Bolivian Rainbow is a vibrant ornamental chili pepper from Bolivia, famous for its multi-colored pods that transition from purple to yellow, orange, and red on a single plant. It delivers moderate heat between 10,000 and 30,000 Scoville units, making it comparable to a serrano. Primarily grown for its striking appearance, it is also edible and adds color to salsas and pickles.
A striking Italian hybrid chili pepper known for its vibrant pink, peach, and purple striped or splotched pods, dark foliage, prolific production, and sweet fruity heat in the hot range (200,000–350,000 SHU).
A striking bright-yellow heirloom chile from the Peruvian Andes, prized worldwide for its refreshing lemon-citrus aroma and clean, vibrant heat that elevates fresh dishes and sauces without dominating them.
The Thai Bird's Eye pepper (also known as Bird's Eye Chili or Prik Kee Noo) is a tiny but fiercely hot chili famous across Southeast Asia for its explosive fruity heat and vibrant color. A staple in Thai curries, salads, and stir-fries, it delivers clean, sharp spice with a distinctive peppery-fruity bite.
The Jamaican Mushroom is a traditional hot pepper from Jamaica known for its distinctive flattened mushroom-like shape, bright yellow ripe color, and fruity citrus flavor with approachable heat. Slightly milder than a classic Scotch Bonnet, it excels in Caribbean cuisine for hot sauces, jerk seasoning, salsas, and stuffing.
Lila Luzi is a compact, high-yielding Capsicum frutescens chili variety prized for its striking purple foliage and flowers, colorful ripening fruits, and hot flavor. It is especially popular as an ornamental container or patio plant while also producing usable hot peppers for fresh or dried culinary applications.
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.
The Mattapeño is a striking variegated jalapeño discovered in a US commercial greenhouse by Matt Ohlendorf. It features heavily marbled white-and-green leaves, purple stems, and green-striped pods that ripen to red with classic earthy flavor and medium heat. Prized for its ornamental beauty and versatility in pickling, salsas, and stuffing.
The Purple UFO pepper is a unique heirloom Capsicum annuum variety celebrated for its striking flying saucer-shaped pods that transition from vibrant purple to red. It offers medium heat and a pleasant fruity flavor, making it excellent for both ornamental and culinary use.
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Manage your pepper journey. Create custom garden sections and track exactly what you're growing season after season.
Find any pepper instantly and deepen your knowledge with practical articles on growing, heat levels, and more — all connected directly to the peppers you care about.
Grower to grower, one variety at a time.
Every season, growers end up with more seeds than they can sow. Capsi’s Seed Exchange turns that surplus into a community. If you’re growing a variety, you can offer your spare seeds to other members — and when you’re hunting for something specific, you can find growers who have it and reach out directly.
Capsi is the matchmaker, not the middleman: we introduce two growers and give them a private space to talk. How the seeds change hands — a trade, a gift, postage — is entirely between you. There’s no checkout, no fees, no shipping to manage in the app.
From My Garden, put spare seeds up for a variety you’re actually growing — add quantity, harvest year, and any notes on isolation or provenance.
Browse seeds by variety, or open the world map to see who’s offering what, filtered by country.
Start a private, one-to-one conversation with the grower and sort out the details together.