Carolina Reaper Red Pepper Plant
Carolina Reaper Red is a C. chinense pepper variety, rated superhot at roughly 1,850,000 Scoville heat units, producing red pods. Austin Peppers sells it as a live nursery-grown plant, shipped from South Texas. It is also known as Carolina Reaper, HP22B, Reaper.
Also known as: Carolina Reaper, HP22B, Reaper
Heat Level: Superhot (1,850,000 SHU)
Species: C. chinense
Pod Color: Red
Price: $10.00 USD
The Guinness World Record-holding hottest pepper, certified in 2013. Developed by Ed Currie (“Smokin’ Ed”) at PuckerButt Pepper Company in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Capsicum chinense, 1,500,000–2,200,000 SHU. Distinctive wrinkled red pod with a scorpion-like pointed tail. Some individual pods test above 2 million SHU. Grow it for hot sauces and for the novelty. Do not eat it casually.
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