Carolina Reaper Pepper - Capsicum Chinense - The worlds HOTTEST Chilli Pepper - Seeds Plastic Growing Bags a red-leaf

a red-leaf

This variety has long been a favourite for its trusses of particularly flavoursome

3-foliate longish leaves hairy below

The fruit is a capsule in most species

Tropical Africa and South Africa

Carolina Reaper Pepper - Capsicum Chinense - The worlds HOTTEST Chilli Pepper - Seeds Plastic Growing Bags a red-leafThe Carolina Reaper is a hybrid chilli pepper of the Capsicum chinense species, originally called the "HP22B", bred by cultivator Ed Currie, who runs PuckerButt Pepper Company in Fort Mill, South Carolina. The Carolina Reaper was rated as the world's hottest chili pepper by Guinness World Records according to 2012 tests, averaging 1,569,300 SHU on the Scoville scale with peak levels of over 2,200,000 SHU. The previous record holder was the Trinidad