The aji dulce pepper is a brightly colored pod popular in the Caribbean, particularly Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, with sweet flavor and mild heat. Learn all about them.
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Aji Panca Chili Peppers
Scoville Heat Units: 500 SHU The Panca chili (or Ají Panca as it’s known in South America), is a deep red to burgundy pepper, measuring 3-5 inches. It is the second most common pepper in Peru, and is grown near the coast. Similar in shape to the Ají Amarillo. Aji Panca Pepper Flavor Profile The Aji...
Albino Sweet Pepper
The Albino sweet pepper is a block pod type that grows 4-4.5 inches long by 2-2.5 inches wide. It is a thick fleshed pepper characterized by the color of its skin which matures from a pale yellow color to orange and finally red. It is a bell type chili pepper.
Anaheim Pepper: A Popular Mild California Chili
The Anaheim pepper is a versatile chili pepper named for the city that made it popular, Anaheim, California. It is mild in flavor and heat, measuring 500-2,500 Scoville Heat Units.
Ancho Peppers: Dried Poblanos
The Ancho Pepper is the dried form of the poblano pepper, and one of the most popular peppers in Mexican cuisine. It is know for its smoky quality, with sweet to moderate heat and a mild paprika flavor. Learn more about it here.
Ancho Ranchero Peppers
The Ancho Rachero pepper is a mild hybrid of the poblano chili pepper with medium-thick flesh. It is best used for stuffing, roasting, or making Mexican cuisine.
Banana Peppers - All About Them
The banana pepper is a mild, medium-sized chili pepper with a tangy, slightly sweet taste. It is typically bright yellow, but matures to green, red, or orange.
Carmen Italian Sweet Chili Peppers
Carmen Italian Sweet Chili Peppers - this Italian sweet pepper is a corno di toro type (bull’s horn), because of its shape. The flavor is sweet and fruity.
Cascabel Pepper (Chile Cascabel)
The cascabel pepper is a Mexican chili pepper famous for its "rattle" and "bell" sounds when the dried pods are shaken, caused by loose seeds within. Learn more about them.
Cayenne Buist's Yellow Chili Pepper
The Cayenne Buist is a bright orange chili pepper with mild heat, originated in the United States, great for making sauces and salsas.
Chilaca Pepper
The chilaca pepper is a dark green, curvy, mildly hot pepper that is an important part of Mexican cuisine. When dried, it is called the chile negro or pasilla pepper.
Corno di Toro Chili Peppers
The Corno di Toro pepper is an Italian sweet pepper. It's name literally translates to "horn of the bull", or "bull's horn", so named because of it's shape. It is also sometimes referred to as "Cowhorn" pepper.
Corno di Toro Giallo Pepper
A mild and sweet multi-purpose chili pepper ideal for many types of cooking. Use them in place of bell peppers in the Cajun Holy Trinity (bell peppers, onion, celery), for stuffed pepper recipes, roasting and grilling, or simply eating raw.
Coronado Chili Peppers
Originally from South America, the Coronado Pepper grows to 4” long and 2” wide with thin, waxy skin and flavor of pear and berries. Enjoyed fresh or dried.
Cubanelle Pepper: All About Them
The Cubanelle Pepper is considered a sweet pepper, though it can have a touch of heat. It is a light green pepper used in general cooking. Learn more about the pepper here, including heat levels, flavor, cooking tips and Cubanelle pepper substitutes.
Dolmalik Chili Pepper
The Dolmalik is an heirloom Ancho type pepper from Turkey. It has a rich smoky sweet flavor. Peppers ripen from light green to a reddish brown.
Doux des Landes Chili Pepper
The Doux des Landes pepper is a sweet pepper that resembles a long and twisted Cayenne chili pepper. Learn more about this wonderful pepper.
Elephant's Ear Chili Pepper
Also known as Slonovo Uvo. The Elephant's Ears is a rare large sweet Paprika type from Croatia. The name is derived from the shape, as the pepper flattens when fully grown and resembles the shape of an elephant's ear.
Espanola Chili Peppers
The espanola pepper is a cross between New Mexican chilies, including the Sandia pepper, and first appeared in the 1980s. Learn more about them.
Espelette Peppers (a.k.a. Piment d'Espelette)
The Espelette peppers, also known as Piment d'Espelette, are chili peppers cultivated in the French commune of Espelette, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. It is mildly hot, measuring up to 4,000 Scoville Heat Units.
Frontera Sweet Peppers
Scoville Heat Units: 0-1,000 SHU (or less) Capsicum chinense The Frontera Sweet Pepper is a variety found at Frontera on the island of El Hierro and brought to the chili pepper community by Peter Merle, a grower living in the Canary Islands. The peppers look very much like Scotch Bonnet peppers with a globe shape...
Gatherer's Gold Chili Pepper
The Gatherer's Gold chili pepper is horn-shaped pepper that ripens to a beautiful orange-gold color. It is a chick walled pepper with a sweet flavor and very few seeds. It is an Italian sweet pepper and ideal for frying, though it is also excellent roasted or raw.
Giant Szegedi Chili Pepper
The Giant Szegedi sweet pepper is originally from Hungary. It is a heart-shaped pepper that starts out whitish-yellow then ripens through orange to red when fully ripe, where it is at its sweetest.
Guajillo Pepper: a Favorite Mexican Pepper
The guajillo pepper is a beloved pepper used in Mexican cuisine. It is the dried form of the mirasol chili pepper, second in popularity only to the ancho, offering sweet flavor and mild-medium heat.
Guindilla Pepper - All About Them
The Guindilla chili pepper is grown and processed in the Basque region of Spain. It is narrow and long, with a mild heat level and is usually pickled.
Gypsy Pepper: A Sweet Hybrid Pepper
The gypsy pepper is a hybrid pepper resulting from a cross between a sweet Italian bull horn pepper and a bell pepper. It was developed by Petoseed, a Southern California company specializing in hybridizing peppers and tomatoes. Learn more about the gypsy pepper at Chili Pepper Madness.
Hatch Chile Peppers: All About Them
Hatch chile peppers are a generic name for New Mexican peppers that are grown and harvested in the Hatch Valley region, New Mexico. Learn more about the Hatch chile pepper from Chili Pepper Madness.
Hawaiian Sweet Hot Chili Peppers
The Hawaiian Sweet Hot Pepper has a similar size (about 2 inches long) and shape to a jalapeno but is typically eaten once it matures to red.
HJ8 Total Eclipse Space Chili Pepper
Since the mid 1980's, China has been sending recoverable satellites into space on a 5 day orbit around Earth. Each trip, approximately 5000 seeds are sent along and are exposed to the zero gravity and cosmic radiation, then returned.
Italian Long Hot Peppers
Italian Long Hot Peppers are mild, sweet peppers popular in Italian cooking, though they have become popular in the United States for their versatility. Learn more about them.
Kashmiri Chili: Vibrant Red Peppers
Kashmiri chilies are a staple of Indian cuisine known for their vibrant red color, usually sold dried, with a mild heat and flavor.
Liebesapfel Chili Pepper
The Liebesapfel pepper is a sweet, thick fleshed chili pepper that means “Love Apple” in German, due to the shape of the pepper. Learn more about it.
Mirasol Peppers: All About Them
The mirasol peppers are Mexican chile peppers popular in making traditional mole sauces. The name means "looking at the sun". In dried form, they are known as guajillo peppers. Learn more about these peppers below.
Mulato Pepper
The Mulato pepper is a mild to medium dried poblano, similar to the ancho pepper, but with a slightly different flavor. The ancho is a poblano that ripens to a deep red, while the mulato is a poblano that ripens to brown, then is dried. Learn more about them below.
New Mex Big Jim Chili Peppers
The New Mex Big Jim chili pepper was introduced by New Mexico State University in the 1970s as a cross between local chilies and a Peruvian chili.
New Mexico 6-4 Heritage Chili Peppers
The New Mexico 6-4 Heritage chile pepper was developed around 1998 from a seed bank of the original New Mexico 6-4.
NuMex Joe E. Parker Chili Peppers
The NuMex Joe E. Parker Pepper is a variety of pepper named after the New Mexican University student who helped select the peppers. Learn more about them.
NuMex R Naky Chili Peppers
The NuMex R Naky is an Anaheim-type hybrid chili pepper created by Dr. Nakayama of New Mexico State University in 1985. Learn more about it.
Paprika Peppers
The paprika pepper is a large, cone-shaped chili pepper. It is typically dried and ground to make the more familiar powdered spice widely produced in Hungary. The paprika is a fairly large red pepper and quite long, growing up to 8 inches, and lends a unique spiciness to paprika powder.
Pasilla Peppers: All About Them
The pasilla pepper is the dried form of the chilaca pepper. The name translates to "little raisin", and it is also known as pasilla bajio or chile negro. Learn more about them from ChiliPepperMadness.com.
Pepperoncini Peppers - All About Them - Scoville & More
Pepperoncinis are sweet, mild chili peppers, usually sold pickled. Also known as Tuscan Peppers, sweet Italian peppers, or golden Greek peppers. Learn more about them.
Peppadew® Peppers (Sweet Piquanté) – Everything You Need to Know
The Peppadew pepper, or sweet piquanté pepper, is a sweetened pickled pepper from South Africa that is popular for snacking. Learn all about it.
Pimento Peppers - What Are They?
Pimento peppers (aka pimiento pepper) are small heart shaped sweet peppers with a mild flavor and very little heat, commonly stuffed into olives and famous for pimento cheese. Learn more about them.
Padron Peppers (Pimiento de Padron)
The Padron pepper (Pimiento de Padrón) is a chili pepper about 3 inches in length originating from Padrón, Spain. It is typically mild but every now and then delivers a surprising blast of heat. Learn more about them here.
Piquillo Peppers - All About Them
Piquillo peppers are sweet chili peppers with no heat traditionally grown in Navarre, Spain, specifically from Lodosa.
Poblano Peppers - Beloved Mexican Pepper (All About Them)
The poblano pepper is a popular Mexican chili pepper, very dark green in color, ripening to dark red or brown. They are mild, large and are heart-shaped. Learn all about them here.
Pueblo Chiles - All About Them
Learn about the unique flavor of Pueblo chiles, a medium-hot variety grown exclusively in Colorado, perfect for salsas, stews, sauces, and more.
Purple Marconi Chili Pepper
The Purple Marconi is a delicious and sweet Italian chili pepper. They grow to about 6 inches in length and taper to a blunt tip.