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Origin: Rwanda OrganicLea Heat Rating: 7 Nyamirambo is a district of Kigali, where Jess, OrganicLea volunteer and Forest School tutor, discovered these chillies. Photo used under Creative Commons license.

Origin: Mexico OrganicLea Heat Rating:  3 OrganicLea grower Ru acquired seeds of this 4-5 cm long pepper in one of a number of shops that only sold dried chillies in the town of Puebla. The chilli was bred in the …

Origin: Trinidad & Tobago OrganicLea Heat Rating: Off the scale At some 1,500,000 SHU, this is the world’s second hottest chilli. The “scorpion” peppers are referred to as such because the pointed end of the pepper is said to resemble …