Hottest Capsicum Chinense Peppers, Ranked by SHU
Capsicum chinense is the species behind nearly every record-breaking super-hot. Here are the hottest chinense peppers in our database, ranked by heat.
30 peppers · Capsicum chinense varieties, ranked by maximum SHU, hottest first.
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Apollo pepper is a reported Ed Currie/PuckerButt superhot tied to Carolina Reaper and Pepper X breeding. Treat the 2,500,000-3,000,000 SHU range as a…
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Pepper X is the current Guinness World Records hottest chilli pepper, with an official average of 2,693,000 SHU from Winthrop University testing. Ed…
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Dragon's Breath is a British-bred super-hot measured between 2,480,000 and 2,500,000 SHU, roughly 500 times hotter than a jalapeño and nearly ten…
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The Carolina Reaper is Ed Currie's South Carolina-bred C. chinense cultivar and the former Guinness hottest chilli. Guinness certified a 1,569,300…
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The Komodo Dragon is a British-bred super-hot clocking 1,400,000-2,200,000 SHU, roughly 440 times hotter than a jalapeño and firmly in the same…
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The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion registers between 1,200,000 and 2,009,231 SHU, making it one of the most formidable peppers ever tested. Native to the…
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Chocolate Bhutlah is a brown Capsicum chinense superhot commonly sold at 1,000,000-2,000,000 SHU. Refining Fire Chiles traces the Bhutlah parent line…
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7 Pot Douglah, also sold as Chocolate 7 Pot, is a dark brown Capsicum chinense superhot from Trinidad and Tobago with a reported 923,000 to 1,853,396…
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7 Pot Primo is Troy Primeaux's Louisiana-bred Capsicum chinense superhot, created from Naga Morich and Trinidad 7 Pot material and described by…
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The Dorset Naga is a British-bred super-hot clocking between 800,000-1,600,000 SHU - roughly half the heat of a Carolina Reaper on its hottest days…
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7 Pot Katie is a UK-bred Capsicum chinense pepper that seed sellers place at 1,500,000 to 1,590,000 SHU. That span is useful for identifying it as a…
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Most people assume the Naga Morich is just a ghost pepper variant. It isn't. This C. chinense from the Bangladesh-India border region registers…
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The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T ranges around 800,000-1,463,700 SHU, with its record-tested specimen clocking 1,463,700 SHU in 2011. Treat it as a true…
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The Naga Viper ranges from 900,000-1,382,118 SHU and briefly held the Guinness World Record in 2011. Bred in England from superhot parentage, it…
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7 Pot Brain Strain is a red, deeply wrinkled Capsicum chinense superhot selected from Trinidad 7 Pot seed lines, with a reported 1,000,000 to…
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The 7 Pot Barrackpore is a Trinidadian super-hot commonly listed around 1,000,000-1,300,000 SHU - roughly 125-520 times hotter than a jalapeno…
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The 7 Pot Red Giant can reach about 1,300,000 SHU - putting it squarely in the super-hot pepper tier alongside Trinidad's most feared peppers…
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The 7 Pot Jonah is a Trinidadian super-hot clocking 800,000-1,200,000 SHU - roughly 4x hotter than a habanero. Its deeply wrinkled pods pack…
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The 7 Pot Yellow is a Trinidadian super-hot clocking between 800,000 and 1,200,000 SHU, fruity and citrusy on the nose, then scorching in a way that…
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The Bedfordshire Super Naga is a British-bred C. chinense that registers 1,000,000 to 1,400,000 SHU - roughly 280 times hotter than a jalapeño and…
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The Infinity Chili briefly held the world record for hottest pepper in 2011, clocking in at 1,067,286 SHU. Bred in England by Nick Woods, this C…
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The ghost pepper (Bhut Jolokia) held the Guinness World Record for hottest pepper from 2007 to 2011, measuring 855,000 to 1,041,427 SHU - roughly 208…
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Chocolate Bhut Jolokia is a brown-ripening ghost pepper selection listed at 800,000-1,001,304 SHU. Buy it by named seed provenance, wait for full…
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The 7 Pot White is a rare Trinidadian super-hot reaching 800,000-1,000,000 SHU - below the highest Trinidad Scorpion listings but still firmly…
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The Bhut Jolokia White is a rare color variant of the legendary ghost pepper, registering 800,000 to 1,000,000 SHU - roughly 200 times hotter than a…
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The Bhut Jolokia Yellow is a rare Indian super-hot hitting 800,000-1,000,000 SHU - roughly 200 times hotter than a jalapeño. Its wrinkled yellow pods…
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Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion is a C. chinense hybrid bred in the USA, crossing ghost pepper and Trinidad Scorpion genetics into a pale peach-colored…
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The Nagabon is a lesser-known American hybrid hitting 750,000-800,000 SHU - roughly as punishing as a ghost pepper but with a distinctly fruity…
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The Red Savina Habanero held the Guinness World Record for hottest pepper from 1994 to 2006, clocking in at 350,000-580,000 SHU - that's roughly 116…
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The Chocolate Habanero is a brown-ripening, open-pollinated habanero listed by Holmes Seed at 425,000 to 575,000 SHU. The supplier describes a rich…
How we rank: Capsicum chinense varieties, ranked by maximum SHU, hottest first. Scoville figures come from our pepper database, measured by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) where available. Individual pods vary with growing conditions, so ranges matter more than single numbers.