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
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cayenne pepper” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.