About Chili Peppers

by Shane Hofer
Plant Sciences 211. NDSU, Fall 2011

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Introduction

Chili peppers, which we have almost all used or consumed at some point in our lives, are a part of the Solanaceae family. Chili pepper have been an important contribution to the human diet along with certain medicines for thousands of years. The first use of such peppers in America was medicinal but short after mended into uses for food.

In this article the peppers being dicussed will be the jalapeno pepper, the habanero pepper, and the infamous ghost pepper. These are three peppers that range quite consistently throughout chili peppers in a sense of heat. Jalapeno producing the least followed by habanero, and then followed by the supposed hottest pepper in the world, the ghost pepper. Despite this information, his article will be a tool in order for you to identify, grow, and consume these peppers with the most utility or satisfaction possible. We will go over the characteristics of these plants in order to identify them and also go over some basic guidlines for planting them.