Tabasco pepper
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{{Taxobox
| name = Tabasco
| image = Tabasco peppers.JPG
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = Tabasco Peppers (ripe and unripe)
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| subclassis = [[Asteridae]]
| ordo = [[Solanales]]
| familia = [[Solanaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Capsicum]]''
| species = ''[[Capsicum frutescens|C. frutescens]]''
| subspecies = '''''C. f. var. tabasco'''''
| trinomial = ''Capsicum frutescens var. 'tabasco'''
| trinomial_authority = <!-- unknown? -->
}}
{{Pepper
| image=chilli35.jpg
| boxwidth=250px
| heat=Hot ([[Scoville scale|SR]]: 30,000-50,000)
}}
The '''tabasco pepper''' is a variety of [[chile pepper]] species ''[[Capsicum frutescens]]''. It is best known through its use in [[Tabasco sauce]], followed by ''peppered vinegar''.
Like all frutescens chilis, the tabasco plant has a typical bushy growth, which commercial cultivation makes stronger by trimming the plants. The tapered fruits, around 4 cm long, are initially pale yellowish-green and turn yellow and orange before ripening to bright red. Tabascos rate from 30,000 to 50,000 on the [[Scoville scale]] of heat levels.
A large part of the tabasco pepper stock fell victim to the [[tobacco mosaic virus]] in the 1960s, and the first resistant variety (''Greenleaf tabasco'') was not able to be cultured until around 1970.
==Naming==
Even though the word "[[tabasco]]" is the name of a [[Mexican state]], this variety of pepper was first grown in large quantities in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Louisiana]]. The initial letter of "tabasco" is rendered in lowercase when referring to the botanical variety, but is capitalized ("Tabasco") when used as a [[Brand|brand name]] to refer to the pepper's namesake sauce product
==References==
*The information in this article is based on a translation of its German equivalent.
[[Category:Chili peppers]]
[[Category:Louisiana cuisine]]
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[[hu:Tabasco paprika]]
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