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Pili Pili

Piri piri
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Pili pili peppers (ripe red and unripe green)
Genus Capsicum
Species Capsicum chinense
Cultivar Pili pili
Heat Very hot
Scoville scale 50,000–175,000 SHU

Piri piri (/ˌpriˈpri/ PIR-ree-PIR-ree, also spelled peri peri or pili pili, also called African bird's eye chili), is a cultivar of Capsicum chinense, one of the sources of chili pepper that grows both wild and domesticated.

It is a small member of the Capsicum genus. It grows in Angola, Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, the tropical forests of South Sudan and the highlands of Ethiopia. It was brought to Goa, India by the Portuguese.

Piri piri is the Swahili word for 'pepper pepper'. Other Romanizations include pili pili in the Democratic Republic of the Congo or peri peri in Malawi, deriving from the various pronunciations of the word in parts of Bantu languages-speaking Africa. Piri piri is the spelling of the name as used in the Portuguese language, namely in the Portuguese-speaking Mozambican community.


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