Description
Species: Frutescens | Origin: Sudan | Heat: Hot Since many wild chiles have the word "bird" in their names, distinguishing among them can be difficult. The African birdseye chile is both wild and domesticated and is also known in English as the African Devil, Monbassa or Zanzibar chile, or in Swahili as pili-pili. Depending on growing conditions, the plants range in height from 1 to 4 feet tall and are usually very bushy. The pods grow erect of the plant and measure between 1/2 and 1 inch long and taper to a blunt point. They mature from green to bright red and are very pungent measuiring around 175,000 Scoville units.