Pepper 'Chilhuacle Rojo'

Chilhuacle Rojo
Capsicum: Annuum 
Origin: Mexico
PI:
Scoville units: 250 > 500
Blossom end shap...Read Moree: pointed
Fruit position and shape: pendant, tapered
Fruit size and color: 3"x 4" green > red
Calyx shape: toothless
Flower: erect, stellate
Petals/Spots: white/none
Filament color: white
Anther color: blue
Habit: sturdy, tree-like bush
Stem: smooth
Leaves: medium, glabrous
Germ. Time: 1 wk > 2 mo.
Maturity: 70 Days
Plant height: 18-24"
Taste: smokey sweet
Uses:· mole sauce, dried, powder
This prized and very expensive chile is grown, like the related Chilhuacle Amarillo, only in southern Mexico.

Approximate 3"-4" pods "heart-shaped" pods ripen to a beautiful red.  Pods of medium thin flesh of low heat are early on a bushy shrub like plant. Very hardy and productive