Brazilian Starfish Pepper Wiki

Flattened starfish shaped fruits mature from green to rich red.

Brazilian starfish pepper wiki. A beautifully shaped chilli from brazil. The brazilian starfish pepper is a capsicum baccatum species. The fruit tend to be very pungent and are 30 000 to 50 000 on the hot scoville heat unit scale. This species of chili pepper includes the following cultivars.

The baccatum pepper species originated in peru but this variety was domesticated in brazil. 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. The flowers are either insect or self pollinated. A medium sized plant that produces hot long slender peppers 14 18cm 5 7in long that ripen from green to red.

Brazilian starfish is a much sought after variety of chilli and a very unusual variety due to its uniquely shaped peppers. Capsicum baccatum is a member of the genus capsicum and is one of the five domesticated pepper species. Capsicum baccatum brazilian starfish medium hot chilli pepper. The heat does tend to creep up on you more of a slow burn than a fast bite.

Sometimes it is called the aji brazilian starfish. It has its roots in ancient peru but has since become domesticated in brazil. Aji means chilli in many caribbean dialects. Pepper varieties in the c.

They pack closer to a serrano pepper heat with the chance for a little more. The brazilian starfish is a uniquely shaped pepper. Capsicum baccatum is a member of the genus capsicum and is one of the five domesticated pepper species the fruit tends to be very pungent and registers 30 000 to 50 000 on the scoville heat unit scale. Brazilian starfish peppers are typically hotter than jalapeño but they don t tend to reach the hotter level of cayenne peppers or aji amarillos another peruvian native.

Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about hot pepper capsicum baccatum brazilian starfish supplied by member gardeners in the plantfiles database at dave s garden.