Thanks for the info on chilly hotness tanay On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 7:45 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/ > > -- *Tanay Bose* Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. Department of Botany. University of British Columbia . 3529-6270 University Blvd. Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z4 (Canada) Phone: 778-323-4036 (Mobile) 604-822-2019 (Lab) 604-822-6089 (Fax) [email protected]
