Lemon Drop

The Lemon drop is a hot, citrus-flavored pepper is a popular seasoning pepper in Peru where it is known as Kellu Uchu. It is also known in the anglophone world as 'Hot lemon' or 'Lemon Drop'. The bright yellow, crinkled, cone-shaped fruits are about 2-1/2" long and 1/2" wide and mature from green to yellow approximately 100 days after transplanting (Long season) have fewer seeds than the average pepper, containing than 15 seeds on average. The plant is vine like typically reaching a height of about 3 ft. Like other baccatum species this pepper was practically unknown in the West until the early 1990s, but are now gaining wide scale popularity.

Scoville Rating: 15000-30000

Banana

A banana pepper is long, mild to moderately hot (0-500 Scoville units) member of the chili pepper family, often served pickled on sandwiches. Its shape and color resembles a banana. As with most peppers, hotness depends on the maturity of the pepper, with the most ripe being sweeter than younger ones.

Banana peppers are typically yellow, but can also be orange or red.

The plant requires full sun, and should be treated like most plants in the pepper family. Plants can be grown from seed and cuttings.

Scoville Rating: 0-500

Aji Caballero

The Ají caballero (or "gentleman pepper") is a scarce hot chili pepper used as the basis of most Puerto Rican condiments, such as the Pique sauce. The fruit of this plant stands vertically, unlike other peppers that hang down from the branches. The plant grows to approximately 3' - 4' in height. Also known by Puerto Rican Jelly Bean Hot Chili Pepper.

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Fatalii

The Fatalii (Capsicum chinense) is a chili that originates in central and southern Africa. It is described to have a fruity, citrus flavor with a searing heat that is comparably hotter to the standard habanero. The Scoville units of a Fatalii range about 125,000 ~ 325,000 units. The plants grow 20 to 25 inches in height, and plant distance should be about the same. The pendant pods get 2.5 to 3.5 inches long and about 0.75 to 1.5 inches wide. From a pale green, they mature to a bright yellow (there are red Fataliis around as well, but the yellow one is the "real thing.")

Scoville Rating: 125000-325000

Aji Dulce

Ají dulce (from South American Spanish ají, "chile" + Spanish dulce, "sweet") is any of a variety of sweet perennial peppers found in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is most widely known in Venezuela where it refers to a specific native variety of Capsicum chinense related to the habanero, but with a much milder, smoky flavour.

In Venezuela, the “ají dulce” is a key ingredient in the preparation of the paramount dish of the Venezuelan cuisine, the Hallaca; and one of the cornerstones of the national cuisine.

In Puerto Rico, the “ají dulce” (“ajíce” for short) is grown commercially and is an important ingredient for sauces, such as sofrito or “mojito isleño” (a fish or meat sauce).

In Brazil, this pepper is called Rubra or Biquinho (Because the rounded-form cultivar; observe the first photo), and is used to make a sweet jam.

The history of this pepper is obscure, but since wild peppers are naturally hot this variety was probably developed over the years among farmers by simple selection of seed from milder and milder fruits. The fruit of aji dulce can be used green or ripe, and it can be seeded and frozen for use over the winter, a technique that also preserves its rich flavor much better than drying. It is a small, light green pepper that turns red (or yellow) if left long enough on the plant. It has the shape and size of a habanero pepper without the intense heat. Occasionally, there can be some ají dulce fruit that is pungent, probably due to out-crossing with other hot pepper plants. In the tropics, this plant can grow as a perennial, although most of the commercial production is with annual systems.

This pepper is sweeter than spicy.

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Mulato

The Mulato pepper is a mild to medium dried Poblano pepper (Capsicum annuum), sold dried. Mexican Mulato chiles are part of the famous "trilogy" used in mole as well as other Mexican sauces and stews. The Mulato's color while growing is dark green, maturing to red or brown. The dried Mulato is flat and wrinkled, and always brownish-black in color. The average length of the Mulato is ten centimeters, and it is typically five centimeters wide. Its shape is wide at the top, tapering to a blunt point.

The Mulato has been described as tasting somewhat like chocolate or licorice, with undertones of cherry and tobacco.

Scoville Rating: 500-5000

Italian Sweet

The Italian sweet pepper is a variety of the species Capsicum annuum, like bell peppers and chilli peppers.

It has the appearance of a large chilli pepper but the mild taste of sweet peppers such as the bell pepper.

Scoville Rating: 0