🌶️Peppers

Capsicum

~40 wild species, 5 domesticated

The genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family (Solanaceae) that produces all chili peppers and bell peppers. Native to the Americas, peppers have been cultivated for over 6,000 years and are now grown worldwide.

💡Capsaicin, the compound that makes peppers hot, evolved as a defense against mammals — but birds are immune to it, which helps spread pepper seeds.

70 peppers

🫑 bell pepper 🫑 pimento 🫑 banana pepper 🫑 cubanelle 🫑 sweet italian 🫑 pepperoncini 🫑 shishito 🫑 padron 🫑 jimmy nardello 🌶️ anaheim 🌶️ poblano 🌶️ ancho 🌶️ guajillo 🌶️ new mexico 🌶️ pasilla 🌶️ mulato 🌶️ cascabel 🌶️ cherry pepper 🫑 friggitello 🌶️ jalapeno 🌶️ chipotle 🌶️ serrano 🌶️ hungarian wax 🌶️ fresno 🌶️ aleppo 🌶️ korean chili 🌶️ mirasol 🌶️ cayenne 🌶️ de arbol 🌶️ dundicut 🌶️ sport pepper 🌶️ puya 🌶️ paprika 🌶️ hungarian paprika 🌶️ smoked paprika 🔥 habanero 🔥 chocolate habanero 🔥 red savina 🔥 scotch bonnet 🌶️ datil 🔥 fatalii 🌶️ adjuma 🌶️ madame jeanette 🔥 carolina reaper 🔥 ghost pepper 🔥 trinidad scorpion 🔥 7 pot 🔥 7 pot primo 🔥 komodo dragon pepper 🔥 pepper x 🔥 trinidad moruga scorpion 🔥 naga viper 🔥 dorset naga 🌶️ tabasco 🌶️ thai chili 🌶️ piri piri 🌶️ bird's eye chili 🌶️ malagueta 🌶️ kambuzi 🌶️ siling labuyo

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