Capsicum chinense

Capsicum chinense is a domesticated pepper species in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. It includes pungent cultivars such as habanero and Scotch bonnet.

Capsicum: A genus of flowering plants that includes domesticated peppers and their wild relatives. Capsicum chinense is one of the genus’s five widely recognized domesticated species.
Habanero: A highly pungent pepper cultivar group associated especially with the Caribbean and Yucatán Peninsula. It is among the best-known C. chinense peppers in global cooking.
Red Savina: A selectively bred red habanero pepper cultivar known for extreme pungency. It became a prominent example of deliberate selection for hotter C. chinense peppers.
Domestication of Capsicum: The process by which people cultivated and selected wild peppers into domesticated crops. C. chinense diversity arose through human selection of useful fruit traits.
Capsicum frutescens: A domesticated pepper species that includes tabasco peppers and other pungent cultivars. Its close relationship to C. chinense can make species boundaries difficult to distinguish.
Solanaceae: A family of flowering plants that includes tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, tobacco, and peppers. This family placement connects the species to familiar crops beyond peppers.
Scotch bonnet: A hot pepper cultivar group common in Caribbean cuisine, named for its bonnet-like shape. Its fruity flavor and heat define many jerk seasonings and pepper sauces.
Bhut jolokia: A chili pepper from northeastern India, traditionally classified as a hybrid involving Capsicum chinense. Its record-setting heat brought worldwide attention to C. chinense ancestry.
Amazon Basin: The vast drainage region of the Amazon River in South America. Archaeological and genetic evidence places early C. chinense history in the Amazonian region.
Capsicum baccatum: A domesticated pepper species native to South America, including ají peppers. Its characteristic floral markings help contrast it with C. chinense.

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