Tepin PepperTepin Pepper is a variety of Capsicum annuum that is native to southern North America and northern South America.
Common names include chiltepin, chiltepe, and chile tepin, as well as turkey, bird’s eye, or simply bird peppers, due to their consumption and spread by wild birds. Tepin is derived from a Nahuatl word meaning "flea".
Chiltepin is a shrub that usually grows to a height of around 1 m, but sometimes reaches 3 m.
Fruit:The tiny chili peppers of glabriusculum are red to orange-red, usually slightly ellipsoidal, and about 0.8 cm in diameter. Some strains of tepin peppers are much closer to perfectly round when fresh. If a tepin pepper is dried, it appears quite round even if it was slightly ellipsoidal when fresh. Tepin peppers are extremely hot, measuring between 50,000 and 100,000 Scoville units.
However, since this pepper is harvested from wild stands in the Mexican desert, the heat level of the fruit can vary greatly from year to year, depending on the amount of natural rainfall that occurs during the time the fruits are forming. During drought years, fruit heat levels can be weak, and during normal rainfall years, the highest heat levels are produced.
Recipes using the Tepin pepper
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Also see Bell Pepper, Ghost pepper, Devil’s Tongue Pepper, Red Savina Pepper, Scotch Bonnet Pepper, Chocolate Habanero Pepper, Fatalii Pepper, Pequin Pepper
