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Capsicum frutescens, is a shrub in the nightshade family, one of four cultivated species of the genus Capsicum, providing several of the hottest cultivated varieties of chili pepper.

Spanish (Spain): Ají, Alegrías, Chili, Chirel, Chilli Pepper, Miracielos, Paprica, Tabasco.

Unlike the other domestic forms of Capsicum, there is no fossil evidence of its existence in American archaeological sites, but it is assumed that it developed in North America, especially Mexico, Central America, probably in Panama, gradually spreading throughout the Caribbean and the north of South America.

It is distributed in Central and South America, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile. The most widely cultivated are the Brazilian malagueta, the African Peri-Peri, the Asian Naga Jolokia or Bih Jolokia and the Tabasco, from which the sauce of the same name is produced.

Also, and among many others, but more local: Gusanito chili in Bolivia, Chuncho chili in Peru, Charapita chili in the Amazon of the latter country, Chirere or Chirel chili in Venezuela, Sweet chili in Colombia, Spicy/Pecante chili in Brazil, African Devil in Africa -where it was already supposed to be derived from C. annuum, which later became prominent and resided- and cultivars with no particular surname, only numbers, in the Philippines and the Solomon Islands (Vanuatu), although there it could be a form local to C. chinense.

The most frequent use of the fruits is in the elaboration of spicy dressings. They are consumed ground and dried, macerated in vinegar or fermented in brine, or simply fresh. In the jungle of Peru, it is prepared in a sauce with cocona.

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Date	January 15, 2022

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