Pimenta da Cachorro or Dog Pepper is a rare and distinctive chili variety from Brazil. It’s valued both for its unique appearance and its complex flavor. Here’s a detailed description:

🌶 Origin: Brazil — particularly in regions where heirloom peppers are grown for local culinary use.

🌿 Plant:

Compact, bushy plants about 2–3 feet (60–90 cm) tall.

Dense foliage with good fruit production.

Performs well in warm, humid tropical or subtropical climates.

🍎 Pods:

Small to medium-sized, often around 2–4 cm long.

Shape varies from rounded to slightly elongated or wrinkled, sometimes resembling a tiny habanero.

Colors mature from green to bright red, orange, or sometimes a golden hue depending on strain.

Thin walls with juicy flesh.

🔥 Heat Level:

Mild to medium (estimated 10,000–30,000 Scoville Heat Units).

Typically less hot than a habanero, but hotter than a jalapeño.

Delivers a pleasant, warming heat that doesn’t linger excessively.

👅 Flavor Profile:

Fruity, slightly floral, with tropical and citrus notes.

Balanced sweetness and tang, making it excellent for seasoning sauces, seafood, and meats.

🍽 Culinary Uses:

Commonly used in Brazilian cooking for marinades, hot sauces, and pickling.

Great for fresh salsas, vinegar infusions, or flavoring oil.

This rare pepper is crunchy and juicy with a mix of tropical flavors that are described as citrus and fruity with slightly smoky tones. Biquinho can be eaten raw or cooked, but are generally pickled in vinegar and served with meals. Try these Biquinho peppers which are also called Sweety Drops, in our Pickled Sweety Drop Peppers Recipe. These peppers are quite popular in Brazil, where they originated.

The peppers start as a striking deep purple or black, eventually ripening to a deep red with some purple undertones. They have a teardrop or beak-like shape, typical of the Biquinho family. 

Black Biquinho peppers have a sweet, fruity flavor with a mild heat. They are often described as having a slightly smoky taste when eaten fresh and are popular for pickling due to their flavor and texture. 

The heat is generally low, ranging from 500 to 2,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). 

The plants can grow to be 2 to 2.5 feet tall and have medium spread. The foliage and stems can be dark, adding to the pepper's ornamental appeal. 

Black Biquinho peppers are versatile in the kitchen. They are excellent for pickling, adding to salsas, hot sauces, and marinades, or using as a garnish. They can also be used in soups, stews, and even jams and jellies. 

They are a Brazilian heirloom pepper, belonging to the Capsicum chinense species. 

Capsicum annuum (90 days) Heirloom - Open Pollinated

The Malagueta pepper is small, typically 1-2 inches long, and has a conical shape that tapers to a point. It ripens from green to a bright red. 

Flavor:

It has a fruity aroma and a flavor profile that is described as sweet, citrusy, and slightly bitter. 

Heat:

The Malagueta pepper is known for its intense heat, with a Scoville heat unit rating between 60,000 and 100,000. 

Usage:

It's a staple in Brazilian, Portuguese, and Mozambican dishes, often used in sauces like piri piri. It's also used to season meats, poultry, and vegetables. 

Plant:

The plant is bushy and dense, growing to about 2-3 feet tall, and produces many small peppers. 

Related Names:

In Brazil, smaller peppers may be called "malaguetinha," while larger ones are "malaguetão,"

Used in dishes callled Feijoada and Moqueca.

Culantro cimarron, also known as Mexican coriander or long coriander, is a tropical herb (Eryngium foetidum) with a strong, pungent flavor and aroma similar to, but more intense than, cilantro, and is used in various Caribbean and Latin American cuisines. 

Appearance: Culantro cimarron has long, tough, green leaves with serrated or toothed edges, earning it the nickname "saw leaf herb". 

Taste and Aroma: It shares a similar flavor profile to cilantro but with a more potent, almost citrusy, and earthy taste. 

Culinary Uses: It's commonly used in soups, stews, rice and bean dishes, and as a flavoring in marinades and salsas, particularly in Puerto Rican and other Caribbean cuisines. 

Other Names: It has various names, including fitweed, ngò gai, recao, and shado beni. 

Medicinal Uses: Culantro cimarron has been used traditionally in folk medicine for various ailments, including chills, vomiting, burns, fevers, and more. 

Cultivation: It is a tropical perennial and annual herb, native to Mexico and South America, and cultivated worldwide. 

Botanical Family: It belongs to the same plant family as cilantro (Apiaceae). 

Aka Couve Tronchuda, Portuguese Kale or Sea Kale, it is a bright jade-green, loose-headed Cabbage with fleshy white mid-ribs and wide-spreading leaves. Sweeter and more tender than regular Cabbage, it may be harvested as a whole plant or leaf-harvested to promote center re-growth with paler, milder, frilly leaves.

Sow seeds in a container of seed starting mix 2 inches apart and cover 1/4 inch deep. Keep moist and provide a strong light source until seedlings are 3 to 4 inches tall, then plant outdoors. Space 12 to 18 inches apart.

Portuguese cabbage is a leafy green vegetable in the brassica family. Unlike most cabbages, this vegetable doesn't form heads and grows in leaves like kale. That resulted in the alternate common name of Portuguese kale plants. ... Kale ribs and stalks are often too woody to eat. Many compare this veggie to collards.

Deep purple color used in juices, jams, pickling, etc.

Sweet taste.

Native to Turkey.

55 days.

Baby carrot. 

Capsicum Baccatum

Taste like a wine grape.

SHU 1000-30000

Pod Size: 1-2”

Plant Height: 2-4+ ft.

Days to Harvest: 70-100 Days

The meaty walls of the chili provide a lot of bell pepper “pepperiness”: grassy and fresh. But underneath of it all, there's a crisp fruitiness here that's enhanced by the juiciness of the chili itself. In terms of eating experience, as mentioned, think more tomato and less jalapeño.

Juicy and meaty​​ The Rocoto is thick-fleshed and juicy, making the chili an all-time favorite in Peruvian cuisine.Between 100,000 and 250,000

While bell peppers aren't hot at all, the Rocoto pepper is extremely hot. Between 100,000 and 250,000 on the Scoville Heat Index, this pepper is about the size of a bell pepper but is rounder and is typically only red or green. Some people use this pepper to make very spicy sauces.

The Cascadura Poblano Sweet Pepper is a unique, mild variety combining the deeply lobed, pumpkin-like shape of Cascadura types with the broader, slightly elongated form of a poblano. Fruits are thick-walled, glossy, and ripen from green to rich red. The texture is firm and juicy, making it excellent for stuffing, roasting, grilling, or fresh slicing.

Flavor is rich and slightly earthy like a poblano, balanced with a gentle sweetness and no bitterness. It holds up well to cooking and develops a deeper, almost smoky sweetness when roasted.

Scoville Heat Units (SHU): 0 – 500 SHU (very mild to no heat)

This makes it ideal for those who enjoy poblano-style flavor without the spice.

Yes, the Cascadura pepper is a type of Poblano/Ancho pepper, often described as a high-quality, Brazilian variant of the classic Mexican pepper. It is specialized for its sweet flavor, thick walls, and high productivity. 

Type: Capsicum annuum (Ancho/Poblano type).

Origin: Brazil.

Flavor/Heat: Mild to no heat (0 Scoville Heat Units), with a sweet, robust flavor.

Appearance: 3–5 inch, plump, and deeply lobed, heart-shaped fruit (resembling a pepper-like pumpkin).

Usage: They are often used green for roasting, stuffing, and grilling, but they turn a rich, glossy red when mature. 

While standard Poblano peppers can sometimes have a mild-to-moderate heat, the Cascadura is specifically noted for having almost zero heat while retaining the traditional "Ancho" flavor profile.

The fruit commonly known as "tamarillo" was originally called "tree tomato" but was renamed by the New Zealand Tree Tomato Promotions Council to avoid confusion with the common tomato and increase its appeal to export markets. 

Here's a more detailed explanation:

Original Name:

The fruit, native to the South American Andes, was initially known as "tree tomato" or "tomate de árbol" in Spanish. 

"Tamarillo" Origin:

The name "tamarillo" was chosen because it sounded both Spanish and Māori, and it was officially adopted on February 1, 1967. 

Other Names:

Besides "tree tomato" and "tamarillo," the fruit is also known as "tomate de árbol" (Spanish), "tomate de arvore" (Portuguese), and "sachatomate" (Peruvian). 

Culinary Uses:

Tamarillos are used in a variety of ways, including eaten fresh, used in chutneys, sauces, desserts, and juices.