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  Pepper Profile: Jolokia
In Assam, the typical height of Bih Jolokia plants is reported to range from 45 to120 cm.
The elongated fruits are 5 to 8.5 cm in length, 2.5 to 3 cm in diameter (at shoulder), with an undulating surface.
CPI noted that in their trials, Bhut Jolokia never produced fruits without artificial pollination in the greenhouse, and little pollen was produced (which means their flowers might need a little help with a fine brush indoors).
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  Chili pepper at AllExperts
The chili pepper, chile pepper, or chilli pepper, or simply chilli, chili or chile, is the fruit of the plant Capsicum from the nightshade family, Solanaceae.
Chile peppers and their various cultivars originate in the Americas; they are now grown around the world because they are widely used as spices or vegetables in cuisine, and even as medicine.
Chili peppers are thought to have been domesticated at least five times by prehistoric peoples in different parts of South, Central and North America, from Peru in the south to Mexico in the north and parts of Colorado and New Mexico (Ancient Pueblo Peoples).
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  Naga - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In India, Naga are depicted as subterranean, often described as the opponent to the airborne eagle-like Garuda.
The Naga is a sacred snake-god in Southeast Asian mythologies who ruled over the rivers and oceans, and is revered as the original ancestor of the Cambodian people.
Naga is the name of several cities in the Philippines, including Naga City, Camarines Sur; Naga, Cebu; and Naga, Zamboanga Sibugay.
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 Chile pepper - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The chile pepper, chili pepper, or chilli pepper, or simply chile, is the fruit of the plant Capsicum from the nightshade family, Solanaceae.
Chile peppers and their various cultivars originate in the Americas; they are now grown around the world because they are widely used as spices or vegetables in cuisine, and even as medicine.
Chile peppers are thought to have been domesticated at least five times by prehistoric peoples in different parts of South and Middle America and North America, from Peru in the south to Mexico in the north and parts of Colorado and New Mexico (Ancient Pueblo Peoples).
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> naga   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Naga (clan), a clan of Jats in India.
Naga District, Mie, a former district in Mie prefecture, Japan.
Naga (Warcraft), a fictional race of reptilian sea-monsters mutated from elves in the Warcraft Universe.
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 Naga   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Naga (clan), a clan of Jats in India.
Naga District, Mie, a former district in Mie prefecture, Japan.
Naga District, Wakayama, a former district in Wakayama prefecture, Japan.
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 Australian Information from Wikipedia
The chemical compound capsaicin (8-methyl-N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) is the active component of chili peppers, which are plants belonging to the genus Capsicum.
Typically the capsaicin is obtained from chili peppers.
Pepper component hot enough to trigger suicide in prostate cancer cells.
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 Informat.io on Naga Jolokia Pepper
The Naga Jolokia pepper is a chile pepper found naturally in the army garrison town of Tezpur, in the north-eastern state of Assam, India.
Recently, the "Naga Dorset" which was developed as a hybrid of the Naga Jolokia by a couple in Dorset, UK has claimed to be the hottest in the world.
Naga Dorset pepper — another pepper with reported ratings beween 876,000 and 970,000.
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 Green Peppers (Hari Mirchon Ka Item) | DesPardes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Both the Red Savina and the Naga Jolokia claims are disputed as to their validity, and lack independent verification.As of April 2006, a report has been made of the Naga Dorset pepper, a variety of the Naga Jolokia pepper cultivated exclusively by the Peppers by Post company in Dorset, England.
Chile peppers are in fact a favorite food of many birds living in the chile peppers' natural range.
The flesh of the peppers provides the birds with a nutritious meal rich in vitamin C. In return, the seeds of the peppers are distributed by the birds, as they drop the seeds while eating the pods or the seeds pass through the digestive tract unharmed.
www.despardes.com /Food/desi/20060715-green-peppers.html   (769 words)

  
 Chile (capsicum) - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The chile pepper (also chili or chilli; from Nahuatl chilli via Spanish chile) is the fruit of the plant Capsicum from the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
The record for the highest number of Scoville units in a pepper is assigned by the Guinness Book of Records to the Red Savina Habanero, measuring 577,000 units.
Both the Red Savina and the Naga Jolokia claims are disputed as to their validity, and lack independent verification.
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 About Chilipeppers
The chili pepper, chile pepper or chilli pepper, or simply chili, chile or chilli, is the fruit of the plant Capsicum from the nightshade family,
The "heat" of chile peppers is measured in Scoville units (SHU).
In April 2006, it was reported that the Dorset Naga pepper, a variety of the Naga Jolokia pepper cultivated exclusively by the Peppers by Post company in Dorset, England, had been measured at 923,000 SHU by a lab used by the American Spice Trade Association.
www.chilipepper.com /AboutChilipeppers/tabid/57/Default.aspx   (1627 words)

  
 Spices: Pepper
Chile peppers are thought to have been domesticated at least five times by prehistoric peoples in different parts of South and Middle America and North America, from Peru in the south to Mexico in the north and parts of Colorado and New Mexico Anazazi.
They were discovered in the Caribbean by Columbus and named "peppers" because of their similarity in taste (though not in appearance) with the Old World peppers of the Piper genus.
The flesh of the peppers provides the birds with a nutritious meal rich in vitamin C. In return, the seeds of the peppers are distributed by the birds, as they drop the seeds while eating the pods or the seeds pass through the digestive tract unharmed.
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 Naga   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Naga people, an ethnic group living in Nagaland and Manipur state in the northeastern part of India.
Naga (Warcraft), a fictional race of reptilian sea-monsters mutated from elves in the Warcraft Universe.
Naga (Dungeons and Dragons); these include spirit nagas, dark nagas, aquatic nagas, and guardian nagas.
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 Contest for meanest chilli was a scorcher-The United States-World-NEWS-The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Naga Jolokia's score means for it to be rendered neutral or tasteless, one measure of it has to be diluted 1.001 million times.
Jolokia, which means chilli in India's northeastern regions, is the first natural pepper to breach the 1 million SHU mark.
Naga, the alternate prefix, was given because it is said to reflect the tribe's fiery temperament.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /The_United_States/Contest_for_meanest_chilli_was_a_scorcher/articleshow/1647257.cms   (418 words)

  
 The World's Hottest Chile Pepper
Naga Jolokia is also called Bih Jolokia in some places of Assam (Bih = Poison, Jolokia = chile pepper; in Assamese).
The Naga name may be due to extreme hotness represented by the aggressive temperament of the warriors of neighboring Naga community.
Bosland had obtained Naga Jolokia seed in 2001 and been growing them for 5 years saying nothing to shed light on the pepper until he submitted his variety for testing and was crowned by Guinness World Records as the hottest in the world and he was the one that "discovered" it.
www.ushotstuff.com /worldshottestchile.htm   (435 words)

  
 Naga Jolokia pepper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Naga Jolokia pepper is a chili pepper found naturally in the army garrison town of Tezpur, in the north-eastern state of Assam, India.
It is sometimes incorrectly claimed to be a Capsicum frutescens but most experts agree that it is a Capsicum chinense.
The Naga Jolokia's initial claim of 855,000 SHU came from scientists at India's Defence Research Laboratory (DRL).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Naga_Jolokia_pepper   (277 words)

  
 Chili pepper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The chili pepper, chile pepper, or chilli pepper, or simply chilli, chili or chile, is the fruit of the plant Capsicum from the nightshade family, Solanaceae.
Chili peppers are thought to have been domesticated at least five times by prehistoric peoples in different parts of South, Central and North America, from Peru in the south to Mexico in the north and parts of Colorado and New Mexico (Ancient Pueblo Peoples).
Among the various peppers mistaken for or misnamed as chili peppers is the Brazilian pepper.
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 Redwood Barn Nursery -- Peppers!
Peppers provide color for your salad, spice for your salsa, and the sweet types are great sliced as finger food.
Hungarian wax peppers are long tapered peppers that are very unpredictable in their heat content from one plant to the next–ranging from mildly spicy to quite hot.
Chili peppers described as New Mexico, California, or Anaheim are generally long tapered peppers that vary greatly in their hotness depending on the variety and the conditions in which they are grown.
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 ABC Pepper Co.
He planted tomatoes, peppers and some other garden crops that needed extra time growing indoors under lights so they would be big enough to go outdoors in mid-May when the soil had warmed sufficient to plant the garden.
Pepper, chile, chili, paprika, and aji are all terms used in different areas of the world to describe the plants and pods of the genus Capsicum.
Delicious fresh, these peppers are usually found commercially pickled and sliced, used for sandwich condiments, or in many delicatessens stuffed with proscuitto and provolone, known as "pepper shooters".
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 Naga Jolokia - World's Hottest Chile Pepper
Naga Jolokia is also called Bih Jolokia in some places of Assam (Bih = Poison, Jolokia = chile pepper; in Assamese).
The Naga name may be due to extreme hotness represented by the aggressive temperament of the warriors of neighboring Naga community.
Bosland had obtained Naga Jolokia seed in 2001 and been growing them for 5 years saying nothing to shed light on the pepper until he submitted his variety for testing and was crowned by Guinness World Records as the hottest in the world and he was the one that "discovered" it.
ushotstuff.com /worldshottestchile.htm   (454 words)

  
 Naga Summary
The Nagas (with an estimated population of 3.5 million in 2000) are a group of tribes inhabiting Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland states in northeast India and neighboring areas of Myanmar (Burma).
Nagas today are overwhelmingly Christians (92.97 percent in the 1981 census).
Naga District, Mie, a district in Mie prefecture, Japan.
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 Chile Peppers
Assorted chile peppers at a farm in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.
A field of chile peppers in the fertile soil of Twin Oaks Valley in northern San Diego County.
Cherry peppers are grown in the fertile soil of Twin Oaks Valley in northern San Diego County.
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 Chili pepper information - Search.com
The chile pepper, chili pepper, or chilli pepper, or simply chile, is the fruit of the plant Capsicum from the nightshade family, Solanaceae.
Chile peppers are thought to have been domesticated at least five times by prehistoric peoples in different parts of South and Middle America and North America, from Peru in the south to Mexico in the north and parts of Colorado and New Mexico (Ancient Pueblo Peoples).
Peppers are commonly thought of as being broken down into three groupings; bell peppers, sweet peppers, and hot peppers.
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 Purchase Seeds
The Pulla pepper is the smaller, stronger relative of the Guajillo chile.
The pepper is 3 to 5 inches long and up to 3/4 of an inch wide at its widest point.
This pepper is commercially grown in Pakistan and is considered a staple for many dishes.
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 CampCuisine.com Glossary
Chili peppers and their various cultivars originate in the Americas; they are now grown around the world because they are widely used as spices or vegetables in cuisine, and as medicine.
The record for the hottest chili pepper is assigned by the Guinness Book of Records to the Red Savina Habanero, measuring 577,000 SHU; however the Dorset Naga pepper is claimed to be over three times as hot as the Red Savina pepper, at 970,000 SHU.
The ground chile peppers may be exclusively hot ones such as cayenne or (rarely) just mild ones like paprika, but are usually a mixture of types to give the desired balance between heat and chile flavor.
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 Hot Sauces, Dry Rubs, and Barbeque Sauces
The sensation of heat that we experience from eating certain peppers is due to the presence of a chemical called capsaicin.
The Scoville scale spans from 0 to 16 million; a sweet bell pepper has 0 Scoville units because there is no capsaicin present and pure capsaicin crystals have 16,000,000 Scoville units.
There are variations of heat from one pepper to the next within the same species.
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 Chile pepper varieties
Naga Jolokia A new variety from the hilly regions of Assam (India).
Peppers are 5 inches long and just over 1 inch wide, tapering to a point.
Peppers are tapering, 6-7 inch long, thick fleshed pods that mature from bright green to red.
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 naga chile pepper database
Naga Morich meaning 'snake or serpent Chile’ is an apt name for this ferociously hot variety.
The Naga Morich it is the variety from which the Dorset Naga originated.
The thin walled wrinkled pods have a high degree of variability in shape although they are generally wedge shaped with three locules and average about 2 inches long by 1 inch wide.
www.thechileman.org /results.php?chile=1&find=naga&heat=Any&origin=Any&genus=Any   (360 words)

  
 Dorset Naga pepper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dorset Naga pepper (Capsicum chinense) is a variety of chile pepper grown in West Bexington, Dorset, England.
It was developed by Michael and Joy Michaud from the Naga Morich chile, a 2 cm long habanero chile cultivar from Bangladesh.
It has been suggested that the Dorset Naga might actually be related to or the same as the Naga Jolokia pepper from Tezpur, however there is not yet enough evidence to confirm this.
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 Naga Jolokia from ebay ? - Hot Pepper Forum - GardenWeb
Peppers are extremely hot and turn from green, to orange-red, to red when mature (mature in 100 plus days from seed).
The pods of a bhut jolokia tend to be sub-conical.
Naga Morrich is in the 850,000 to 950,000 SHU range.
forums.gardenweb.com /forums/load/pepper/msg0821513930217.html   (2860 words)

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