Tepin peppers, is this it?............
I have some pepper bushes in my back yard that come back every year. I have always heard them called chili pateens or bird peppers. They look like little bb’s, maybe a hair bigger. Any idea what they are and where they fall on the heat scale. I know they are damned hot-a little hotter than a jalapeno.
ps: grew some habaneros one year.........once was enough!!
Yes I have seen those. I can’t remember the name, but they are very very hot. Even Mexican approach that pepper with respect.............
Tepin peppers, is this it?............
Tepin pepper 100k to 265k Scoville Units............
LOL! Rayboy had me get him some Habaneros to take to school. He ate on in front of his friends and declared that they weren’t all that hot, here, try one...
Capsicum annuum var. glabrisculum, also known as Chiletepin, Tepin peppers or “birdÂ’s eye” peppers are supposedly one of the hottest peppers in the world. Some chile enthusiasts argue that the Tepin is hotter than the habanero or Red Savina. These tiny peppers are about 3/8″ round to slightly oval, and are found in the deserts of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Northern Mexico. The word “Tepin” comes from the Nahuatl Mexican word meaning “flea”. In 1995, Texans named the Jalapeno pepper the official pepper of Texas, but two years later, the Tepin was named the official native pepper of Texas.
http://home.att.net/~larvalbugrex/birdpepper.html Maybe?Many years ago, our neighbor had a huge Chile piquin plant, and she let me pick all I could use. I made salsa one year and put them in baby food jars, friends gave me a “what the hell” look when I handed them out . . . until they tasted the stuff. It was great, but it was hot!
One weekend we had some of Eaker’s coworkers over for a BBQ, the Mexicans would not go near those peppers.