Tabasco pepper

Tabasco is the name of a chilli variety of the species Capsicum frutescens. She became famous mainly through the Tabasco sauce. Tabasco is also the name of a Mexican state, but the variety was first grown in Louisiana / USA on a large scale to produce named after her Tabasco sauce.

Like all frutescens Chilis also owns the " Tabasco " Plant a typical bushy growth, which is further enhanced by trimming the plants in commercial cultivation. The approximately 4 cm long, front tapered fruits grow upright, are first yellow, later bright red. You can reach on the Scoville scale values ​​of 30,000 to 50,000 units.

A large part of Tabasco stocks fell in the 1960s, the tobacco mosaic virus to the victim until around 1970 first resistant varieties ( Greenleaf tabasco ) could be grown.

Swell

• Richard Schweid: Hot Peppers: The Story of Cajuns & capsicums. Revised Edition. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1999. ISBN 0-8078-4826-3.
• Harald Zoschke: The Chili Pepper Guide. Cultivation, recipes, interesting facts. Suncoast Peppers GmbH, Kressbronn, 3 unchanged edition 2004. ISBN 3-924685-05-3