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Chilli – Piri piri (chillies grow up)

$7.00

Capsicums are a frost and cold tender EVERGREEN PERENNIAL that is often grown as an annual, reaching a height of 1m. Prefers growing in a moist well-drained soil in full sun. This cultivar has white flowers that are followed by oblong tapering (5 – 8cm) upright growing fruit that ripen from green to red. Packing a good heat (up to 175,000SHU) its name translates to pepper pepper.

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Description

Used fresh as a condiment or roasted, dried, or canned. Peppers are often used fresh in salads, or cooked into pasta sauces, marinades, made into hot sauces etc. They are very high in vitamin C and other vitamins and minerals making them highly nutritive. It is mostly the very pungent cayenne peppers that are used medicinally.

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(Capsicum chinense)