Pequin Chili Pepper grows wild in central Texas, is a small and very hot pepper that is the mother of the majority of our cultivated varieties, and bears fruit almost all year long.
They originally come from South America where birds have deposited the seeds, especially mockingbirds.
Pequin have a complex and fruity flavor, fiery hot, and have a slightly sweet, smoky flavor beneath the heat.
Chile pequin rank 70,000 to 120,000 on the Scoville scale or 8.8 on the heat scale of 1-10.
