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- The Trinidad Scorpion pepper is a chili pepper hailing from the Caribbean. It is native to Trinidad and Tobago. These red, wrinkled peppers sport tails that resemble the scorpion, hence the name, and are known for their intense heat.
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Mar 15, 2022 · The Trinidad Scorpion pepper is a chili pepper hailing from the Caribbean. It is native to Trinidad and Tobago. These red, wrinkled peppers sport tails that resemble the scorpion, hence the name, and are known for their intense heat.
Apr 7, 2022 · The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper is a scorching hot chili (1,200,000 to 2,000,000 Scoville heat units). It’s one of the hottest peppers in the world, only surpassed by the likes of the Carolina Reaper and a handful of potential contenders for the title.
- Chinense
- 1,600,000
- 150 to 800 times hotter
- 1,200,000-2,000,000
The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T is a Capsicum chinense cultivar that is among the hottest peppers in the world. It is a hybrid pepper and thus not indigenous to anywhere; however, its hybrid parentage is derived from the Trinidad Moruga scorpion indigenous to Trinidad and Tobago.
Sep 23, 2021 · The Trinidad Scorpion may be second on the list of World’s Hottest Peppers, but one bite of this wicked little fireball is proof that coming in first isn’t everything. The burn isn’t immediate – there’s a slight sweetness initially.
- Colton Radford
The Trinidad Moruga scorpion (a cultivar of Capsicum chinense) is a chili pepper native to the village of Moruga, Trinidad and Tobago. In 2012, New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute identified the Trinidad Moruga scorpion as the hottest chili pepper at that time, with heat of 1.2 million Scoville heat units (SHUs) .
Jan 3, 2023 · One of the primary contenders for the world's hottest pepper is the Scorpion Pepper. Also called the Trinidad Scorpion pepper, this pepper and its cultivars can reach more than two million SHUs, which is enough to set your mouth and the record books on fire.
Jul 11, 2021 · The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Pepper is the second hottest pepper in the world, measuring over two million Scoville heat units, and is hotter than the Ghost pepper, which measures in at over one million Scoville heat units (SHUs).
