Recognized for a time by the Guinness Book of Records as the World's Hottest Chilli. It was developed and cultivated by a company called GNS Spices of Southern California.
The Red Savina Habanero is a member of c. chinese and was developed from a mutant red pepper that was found in a field growing only orange Habaneros in 1989.
One red fruited plant among all the orange ones was regarded as rather odd.
The seeds from this single red poded plant were grown,then through a program of selective breeding, the Red Savina strain was born In 1994, the Red Savina had set a world record for heat at 577,000 Scoville units.
