Steve Wertz wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2007 02:37:24 GMT, Blinky the Shark wrote:
>
>> rachael simpson wrote:
>>> Blinky the Shark wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hasn't appeared here, yet...the hottest shown is Indian.
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale
>>>>
>>>> How recent is development of the one you address?
>>>>
>>> I first heard about it about a month ago. It was on a radio news
>>> show.
>>
>> Can't find anything on it with a Google search of news items.
>> Perhaps someone with better google-fu than I can come up with
>> something.
>
> Search for "dorset naga" which is really the jolikia. The former
> received much more publicity in the last year than the original.

Ah! I'd never heard of "dorset naga".

It gets fairly confusing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naga_Jolokia_pepper

"The Indians claim it is a C. frutescens,[1] but the derived cultivar
Dorset Naga was assessed as a C. chinense."

That's the only ref to China in the article. It seem to be Indian in
origin, regardless.


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