Prof. Singh, recently developed Trinidad Chilli is considered even hotter than Naga Jhalakia. Promila
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 5:30 AM, Ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote: > and there is a contest in either texas and //or arizona where hardy ( to > me foolish() souls eat these /bite into them for a competition and a > prize.... prize to me is usually something silly... > > anyway something similar is grown and eaten in Bangladesh and we get them > once in a while in Kolkata markets... and called BISH lanka... = poisonous > pepper/chilli > I'll see if I can find and take a few pictures without touching them... > its said to burn the skin and for the uninitiaded a very painful experience. > > usha di > > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Capsicum chinense, the Habanero chilli is one of the hottest chillis, Unripe >> habaneros are green, maturing to orange and red, but white, brown, and pink >> are also seen. It is often mistakenly referred to as the hottest pepper >> in the world: that honor belongs to The Naga Viper which rates a >> 1,359,000 on the Scoville scale >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale>. the Naga Jolokia >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_Jolokia>, a hybrid of C. chinense and >> C. frutescens, previously considered hottest comes to around 1,000, 000. >> Habanero >> may touch 300,000 on the scale. >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "efloraofindia" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
