Tabasco (plant)
Tabasco is the name of a chilli variety of the Capsicum frutescens species . It is best known for its tabasco sauce . Tabasco is also the name of a Mexican state , but the variety was first grown on a large scale in Louisiana / USA to produce the chilli sauce named after it .
Like all Frutescens chilis, the Tabasco plant also has a typical bushy growth that is reinforced in commercial cultivation by pruning the plants. The approx. 4 cm long, pointed fruits grow upright, turn yellow at first, later bright red. Due to the capsaicin it contains, they achieve a sharpness of 30,000 to 50,000 units on the Scoville scale .
A large part of the Tabasco stocks fell victim to the tobacco mosaic virus in the 1960s , until the first resistant varieties ( Greenleaf Tabasco ) could be bred around 1970 .
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- Richard Schweid: Hot Peppers: The Story of Cajuns & Capsicums. Revised Edition. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1999. ISBN 0-8078-4826-3 .
- Harald Zoschke: The Chili Pepper Book. Cultivation, recipes, interesting facts. Suncoast Peppers GmbH, Kressbronn, 3rd unaltered edition 2004. ISBN 3-924685-05-3
Web links
- Tabasco profile in the pepperworld.com chilli database