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Capsicum chinense
Flower and fruit of the worlds hottest chili pepper as of December 2013. On February 13, 2012 the New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute identified the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion as the hottest chili of the world, with a mean heat of more than 1.2 million Scoville Heat Units and individual plants capable of heat of more than 2 million Scoville Heat Units. On December 26, 2013 the Guinness World Records declared the Carolina Reaper the world's hottest pepper, dethroning the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.
Cultivated at the farm.
Paul Bosland, a chili pepper expert and director of the Chile Pepper Institute, said that, "You take a bite. It doesn't seem so bad, and then it builds and it builds and it builds. So it is quite nasty.
Spotted on Jan 9, 2014
Submitted on Jan 9, 2014
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