The tabasco pepper is a variety of chilli species Capsicum frutescens. It is best known through its use in Tabasco sauce.
Like all C. frutescens cultivars, the tabasco plant has a typical bushy growth, which commercial cultivation makes stronger by trimming the plants. The tapered fruits, around 4cm (1½in) long, are initially pale yellowish-green and turn yellow and orange before ripening to bright red. Tabascos rate from 30,000 to 50,000 on the Scoville scale of heat levels[2], and are the only variety of chilli whose fruits are "juicy"; i.e., they are not dry on the inside. Unlike most chillis, tabasco fruits grow up, rather than hanging down from their stems.
A large part of the tabasco pepper stock fell victim to the tobacco mosaic virus in the 1960s; the first resistant variety (Greenleaf tabasco) was not cultivated until around 1970.[3]
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- ↑ Tabasco - Chile pepper database. The Chileman.org. Retreived: 2010-09-02.
- ↑ McGee, H. (2004). On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen. by Simon and Schuster. p. 421. ISBN 0684800012.
- ↑ Andrews, J. (1998). The Pepper Lady's Pocket Pepper Primer. University of Texas Press. p. 151. ISBN 0292704836