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Pepper Plant Varieties

  • Writer: Lora Penner
    Lora Penner
  • Mar 2, 2025
  • 2 min read

Variety                                             Information/Description                       Scoville/heat rating

 

Non-hot Jalapeno

Perfect for stuffing, no heat

0

Aji Dulce Long Red

Non-hot red fruit, habanero flavor

0-500

Sweet Bonnet

Mild heat, smokey flavor

0

Shishito 

Slender yellow/green fruit

100

Paprika (Kapia)

8” long red peppers.  Plants: 3-4’, Hungary.  Grows good in pots.

0-500

Pimento

Red flat fruit, good pickling pepper

100-500

Pepperoncini

Lime green, 3-6” long fruit.  Italy

100-500

Padron

1 in 20 is hot, green, 2” long.

Spanish heirloom

500-2500

Anaheim

Mild Chile pepper.  Green 6-8” fruit.

500-2500

Poblano/Ancho

Good for stuffing.  6” long, green.  Mexico.

1000-2500

Jalapeno

3” long green fruit.  Mexico

2500

Chipotle

3” red, smoke and dry.  Mexico

2500

Cherry Bomb

Golf ball sized red peppers

2,500-5,000

Blazing Banana

Yellow long fruit

3,000-6,000

Lemon Jalapeno

Yellow, fruity flavor.  USA

2,500-8,000

Hungarian Hot Wax

Yellow/Red.  6” long, prolific.  Hungary.

5,000-10,000

Fresno Supreme

Red fat conical shape fruit.

5,000-10,000

Fish

Striped (multi-colored).  2” long, Caribbean, prolific.

5,000-17,500

Inca Red Drop

Small medium pods.  Sweet and heat

15,000-30,000

Bishop Crown

1.5-2” long, red fruit.  Barbados.  Sweet and heat.

5000-30,000

Serrano

Prolific, green, 3” long.  Mexico

10,000-23,000

Brazilian Starfish

1-1.5” diameter, red fruit.  Brazil.

15,000-20,000

Aji Amarillo

4” long, orange fruit.  Fruity.  Peru

20,000-50,000

Cayenne

Bright red fruit

30,000-50,000

Lemon Drop

Citrusy flavor, slender yellow fruit. Peru

30,000-50,000

Tabasco

2” long, ripen red.  Mexico

30,000-50,000

Aji Cristal

4” long, orange fruit, citrusy, Chile

30,000-50,000

Thai Chile

Small red peppers

50,000-100,000

Sugar Rush Peach

Citrusy and sweet.  UK.  Aji Pepper

50,000-150,000

Datil

Yellow fruit, sweet and heat

100,00-300,000

Jamaican Scotch Bonnet

Green/orange.  Caribbean

100,000-300,000

Yellow Habanero

Yellow fruit, citrusy flavor, compact plant, Caribbean

100,000 -350,000

Hot Paper Lantern Habanero

Earlier and more productive than regular habaneros.  Red fruit.

90 days to red fruit.  Peru

150,000-400,000

Habanero

Orange fruit- 87 days to orange fruit

150,000-300,000

Chocolate Habanero

Chocolate colored 3” fruit. Sweet, rich, smoky flavor.  Jamaica. 

300,000-577,000

Savina Habanero

Fruity flavor, 2” red pods, USA

250,000-577,000

Caribbean Red

2” red fruit.

400,000

Fatalii Peach

 Sweet and heat.  Africa

125,000-400,000

Wicked Ghost

2.5” red pods, USA

800,000

Ghost/Bhut Jolokia

3” red fruit, India

800,000-1 mil

Ghost peach X Ghost white

White to peach long pods

1.2 mil

Kraken Scorpion

SUPER HOT, 3-4” long, yellow, USA, smoky and earthy flavor

1.2-1.3 million

Trinidad Scorpion

SUPER HOT, 3” fruit, red fruit

1.2-1.5 million

APOCALYPSE SCORPION

Sweet, hot, and fruity.  3” red fruit, Italy

1.4 million

7-Pot Brown Long

SUPER HOT, 2-3” long, Trinidad

1-1.5 million

Death Spiral

SUPER HOT, 3” red fruit, UK

1.3-1.4 million

Carolina Reaper

SUPER HOT, red, Plants get tall.

Hottest chili pepper in 2013.  USA

1.5-2.2 million

Dragons Breath

Red pods.  Large plants.  UK.

1.5 + million

2.48 million

Pepper X

Seeds not available to the public

2,693,000

US Grade Pepper Spray

 

2.2-5.3 million

 

Decorative Peppers

Jigsaw

Fruit: purple, green, and red.  Multicolored leaves.

30,000

Bolivian Rainbow

Fruit: purple, yellow, orange, and red.  1” fruit.

30,000

Black Olive

Dark purple leaves, purple/black fruit that turn red, 20” tall.

45,000


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