This is an illustration of the world's hottest pepper, "Pepper X." The appearance of the top-of-the-top chili garden in 'Super Hot' resembles the Carolina Reaper, but it is a brownish-yellow and green.It has a Scoville rating of 3.18 million, which is double the value of the Carolina Reaper, which held the top spot until 2013.
Botanical information
Informations of the plants imaged for these illustrations is bellow.
Botanical name
< scientific name >
Capsicum chinense "pepper X"
< common name >
[ cultivar ] Pepper X
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Plantae Category
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Solanaceae
< genus >
Capsicum
< species >
Capsicum chinense [cultivar] Pepper X
Origin
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western Amazon basin
