Dragon's Breath (chili pepper)
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| Dragon's Breath | |
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| Species | Capsicum chinense |
| Breeder | Neal Price |
| Origin | Denbighshire and Nottingham, United Kingdom |
| Heat |  Exceptionally hot |
| Scoville scale | 2,480,000[1] SHU |
Dragon's Breath is a chili pepper cultivar that unofficially tested at 2.48 million Scoville units.
The plant was developed in a collaboration between chili farmer Neal Price, NPK Technology, and Nottingham Trent University during a test of a special plant food and for its essential oil having potential as a skin anesthetic.[2][3][4] The Dragon's Breath plant was later cultivated by breeder Mike Smith of St Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales, who said that he had not planned to breed the chili for record heat, but rather was trying to grow an attractive pepper plant.[5] Due to the nationality of the farmer who cultivated the pepper in Wales, it was named Dragon's Breath after the Welsh dragon.[6] It was entered in the Plant of the Year contest at the 2017 Chelsea Flower Show where it was on the short list, but did not place.[2][5][7]
