Chiltepe Pepper

Slightly larger than peppercorns and are bright red or green in color.

Chiltepe pepper.

Explosions of light and heat before altogether disappearing. Also known as the bird chile or chiltepin these tiny tepin peppers are as potent as it is petit. This native plant includes chile pequin and it s confusing but the ones you ll find in your nurseries will most likely be called chile pequin. Coming in at 50 000 100 000 scoville heat units shu this pepper is ferociously hot and pungently flavoured.

Because birds don t feel the heat of hot peppers like mammals do they helped spread the seeds across the continent as small. The chiltepin pepper is a tiny round or oval shaped chili pepper grown wild throughout much of the u s. Dried chiltepin peppers chili tepin weights. It is quite spicy measuring up to 100 000 scoville heat units.

Chiltepin ranges from 50 000 to 100 000 scoville heat units on the pepper scale with the chance for a bit hotter if a crop had an ideally wet growing season. Common names include chiltepin indian pepper chiltepe and chile tepin as well as turkey bird s eye or simply bird peppers due to their consumption and spread by wild birds. Adaptable to sun shade or part shade it can be a perennial in many gardens. Aviculare or bird pepper is a small pea sized chile that grows wild on 3 4 ft tall shrubs in parts of texas and northern mexico.

Glabriusculum is a variety of capsicum annuum that is native to southern north america and northern south america. These chiltepin chiles are powerful fireworks. On the scoville heat index chiltepin peppers score 50 000 100 000 units. Chiltepin capsicum annuum var.

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Chiltepin peppers capsicum annuum var glabriuculum can still be found growing wild in southern arizona and into northern mexico. Glabriusculum aka capsicum annum var. Texas designated the chiltepin chile tepin as the official state native pepper in 1997. Chiltepin grows wild in texas is the official state native pepper of texas and is a favorite in tex mex cooking.

The plants bear tiny fruit often referred to as bird s eye peppers and boy do these little babies pack a punch.