Tabasco pepper
Sign in to saveAlso known as Capsicum frutescens cv. Tabasco, Capsicum frutescens 'Tabasco', Capsicum frutescens ‘Tabasco’
variety of chili pepper
Key facts
- Genus
- Capsicum
- Species
- Capsicum frutescens
- Cultivar
- 'Tabasco'
- Heat
- Hot
- Scoville scale
- 30,000–50,000 SHU
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- cultivar
- Subclass of
- chili pepper
- Parent taxon
- Capsicum frutescens
- Image
- Tabasco peppers.JPG
- Has use
- spice
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- Scoville grade
- 50000
- taxon name
- Capsicum frutescens ‘Tabasco’
- taxon rank
- cultivar
- Commons category
- Tabasco pepper
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Encyclopedic overview
Tabasco pepper on its bush in the Bergianska botanical gardens, Stockholm, 2013
The tabasco pepper is a variety of the chili pepper species Capsicum frutescens originating in Mexico. It is best known through its use in Tabasco sauce, followed by peppered vinegar.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tabasco pepper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.