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.

The Gogosari pepper is a variety of the Capsicum annuum plant. It is also known as a Romanian heirloom pepper. 

Here are some characteristics of the Gogosari pepper:

The peppers are large, round, and flattened, with a burgundy red color and convex surface. 

The peppers have a sweet taste and a compact, juicy pulp that is thicker and crispier than other varieties. 

Gogosari peppers can be eaten fresh in salads, cooked in a pan, stuffed, canned, pickled, or marinated in sweet and sour sauce. 

The Gogosari pepper is originally from Romania, where it was widely grown commercially in the 1920s. It is also found in Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, and Moldova. 

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 Count Dracula pepper is a variety of Capsicum annuum, a type of ornamental pepper known for its dark foliage and fruit that ripens from black to blood-red. It is a medium-hot pepper with a Scoville rating ranging from about 5,000 to 30,000 units, depending on the source. 

Species: Capsicum annuum

Appearance: Features dark, almost black, foliage, stems, and purple flowers. The small, conical fruits are initially black and mature to a blood-red color.

Heat level: The heat can vary, but it is generally considered a medium-hot pepper, with ratings ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU). This is hotter than a jalapeño, with some sources comparing it to a cayenne pepper.

Culinary use: It is edible and can be used in salsas and sauces, although its primary appeal is often its ornamental value.

Growing habits: It is a compact plant that grows well in containers and is suitable for home gardens. 

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.

Scotch Bonnet Orange

Orange Scotch Bonnet - Heirloom

These attractive orange hot peppers have a surprising amount of heat and a wonderful aroma. Their unique taste is required for authentic jerk sauce. Jerk is a way of cooking that originated in Jamaica when meat is rubbed with a very sharp spice mixture called Jamaican Jerk spice. It is closely related to the habanero, but with a sweeter flavor and stouter shape. 

The pods are 1-1/2" wide and 1-1/2" long and have a citrus-like flavor with a lot of heat. They have smooth waxy skin and four globular ridges at the bottom that aren't quite bonnet-like. The peppers mature from green to bright orange on very productive 24" tall plants.  Capsiucum chinense (90 days)

~ Packet contains 10 seeds. 

Heat Level: Extra Super Hot

Scoville Heat Units: 300,000

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