Capsicum are annual or perennial plants, with simple, alternate leaves, and tubular or bell-shaped flowers. They are grown for their glossy, many-seeded edible fruits, including chilli and bell ...

The world's hottest chilli pepper variety producing small, rounded green fruits ripening to fiery red with a distinctive pointed scorpion tail. The plant has a Scoville rating of 2.2 million and ...

He built a formula for cross-breeding peppers to hold more heat, allowing the notoriously fickle plants to consistently produce. Pepper X was in the works shortly after the Carolina Reaper ...

Image caption, Olga Grieves said slugs ate Carolina Reaper peppers in her greenhouse ... flowers such as snapdragons as well as spikey plants such teasels. "Sadly veg-wise, they do like everything ...

Growing your own pepper plants from seed is a rewarding process and getting your plants off to a ... members of the extremely spicy Capsicum chinense species are also popular to grow and include ...

After eating a Carolina Reaper pepper, the 34-year-old started dry-heaving (throwing up without actually throwing anything up) before developing a pain in his neck that turned into a series of ...