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Chile pepper varieties |
 | | Originally, pre-1492, the name Malagueta was given to a hot, small, lanceolate, fl grain from the Bight of Benin in W Africa, (then called then the Grain Coast), which was used as a substitute for the highly expensive real grain pepper originating from the Moluccas (now in Indonesia). |
 | | Peppers turn a collection of colours as the season progresses, first yellow, then purple, orange, and finally maturing to a flame red. |
 | | In its native habitat, the Bird Pepper, known as Chiltecpin (Chill-tech-peen) to pre-Columbian Amerindians and the first Spanish plant collectors, is a low shrub growing to five feet in height. |
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