Brazilian Starfish Pepper Scoville

It is short just 3 4 of an inch tall and boasts the trademark red hue of most chilli peppers.

Brazilian starfish pepper scoville. Unknown tell us. Unknown tell us. Small under 2 in length fruit color. Capsicum baccatum is a member of the genus capsicum and is one of the five domesticated pepper species.

This tall plant has a vine like habit and produces good yields of 1 2 inch wide starfish shaped peppers that ripen to a brilliant red at maturity. Hot 5 000 to 30 000 scoville units fruit shape. The fruit tends to be very pungent and registers 30 000 to 50 000 on the scoville heat unit scale. Green changing to red.

Baccatum species have white or cream colored flowers and typically have a green or gold corolla. We say it falls somewhere in between. The star shaped fruits can have variable heat sometimes exceeding that of jalapeños but most are juicy and more often sweet. Fresh salsa salads drying.

Their one and 3 4 inch width spreads out like the arms of a starfish. Pepper varieties in the c. Heat rating in scovilles. This uniquely shaped pepper resembles a star and grows to about 2 inches in size and ripens from green to a beautiful red.

A unique thing about these peppers is that they are wider than they are long. Brazilian starfish boasts complex floral and fruity tones that are perfectly offset by medium heat. Expect surprises when snacking on this pepper. 5000 30000 the brazilian starfish is a uniquely shaped pepper.

The fruit varies in heat but often medium spicy. This juicy pepper has a floral fruity flavor with medium heat. The brazilian starfish pepper is named for its resemblance to the sea star. 5 6 to 6 0 acidic 6 1 to 6 5 mildly acidic.

The carolina reaper 2 200 000 shu is the hottest pepper in the world ranging from 1 500 000 scoville heat units and peaking at 2 200 000 shus. Expect surprises when snacking on this pepper. The scoville scale is dominated early by chemical compounds such as resiniferatoxin 16 000 000 000 shu a chemical likely to cause chemical burns on contact with the skin. Some sources say it s a mild chili others say it reaches the high end of cayenne pepper heat 50 000 shu.

There are discrepancies all around in terms of the scoville heat rating shu of the brazilian starfish. The baccatum pepper species originated in peru but this variety was domesticated in brazil.