data: Fri Feb  8 18:58:42 BRST 2008
criado por: ego@pimentaspurehell.com.br

                            Tabasco pepper

The tabasco pepper is a variety of chile pepper species Capsicum
frutescens. It is best known through its use in Tabasco sauce,
followed by peppered vinegar.

Like all frutescens chilis, the tabasco plant has a typical bushy
growth, which commercial cultivation makes stronger by trimming the
plants. The tapered fruits, around 4 cm long, are initially pale
yellowish-green and turn yellow and orange before ripening to bright
red. Tabascos rate from 30,000 to 50,000 on the Scoville scale of heat
levels.

A large part of the tabasco pepper stock fell victim to the tobacco
mosaic virus in the 1960s, and the first resistant variety (Greenleaf
tabasco) was not able to be cultured until around 1970.

Heat: Hot (SR: 30,000-50,000)

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fonte : Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco_pepper