cayenne pepper
Sign in to saveAlso known as Guinea spice, cow-horn pepper, aleva, bird pepper, red pepper, Capsicum annuum 'Cayenne', red hot chili pepper, Capsicum annuum var. acuminatum
hot chili pepper used to flavor dishes
Key facts
- Genus
- Capsicum
- Species
- C. annuum
- Cultivar
- Cayenne
- Heat
- Hot
- Scoville scale
- 30,000–50,000 SHU
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- Commons category
- Cayenne pepper
- Scoville grade
- 50000
- taxon name
- Capsicum annuum var. acuminatum
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A large red cayenne Thai peppers, a cayenne-type pepper Capsicum frutescens
The cayenne pepper is a type of Capsicum annuum. It is usually a hot chili pepper used to flavor dishes. Cayenne peppers are a group of tapering, 10 to 25 cm long, generally skinny, mostly red-colored peppers, often with a curved tip and somewhat rippled skin, which hang from the bush as opposed to growing upright. Most varieties are generally rated at 30,000 to 50,000 Scoville units.
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