The Naga Viper pepper is a hot chili pepper. In 2011, it was recorded as the "World's Hottest Chili" by the ''

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'' with a rating of 1,382,118 Scoville heat units (SHU), but was surpassed in SHU by the current world record holder, the

Carolina Reaper The Carolina Reaper is a cultivar of the ''Capsicum chinense'' plant. Developed by American breeder Ed Currie, the pepper is red and gnarled, with a bumpy texture and small pointed tail. In 2017, ''Guinness World Records'' declared it the hotte ...

, in 2017.

Origin

The Naga Viper was created in

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by chilli farmer Gerald Fowler of the Chilli Pepper Company in Cark,

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. It is claimed to be an

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three-way hybrid produced from the

Naga Morich The Naga Morich, (also known as Naga Moriç in Sylheti) is a chili pepper grown in Northeast India and Bangladesh. There is no consensus on whether this is synonymous with the Bhut Jolokia, or a different variety. It is also one of the hottest ...

, the

Bhut jolokia The ghost pepper, also known as ''bhut jolokia'' (which literally means 'Bhutan pepper' in Assamese), is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India. It is a hybrid of ''Capsicum chinense'' and ''Capsicum frutescens''. ...

and the Trinidad scorpion, which are some of the world's hottest peppers.

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