India’s ‘ghost pepper’ is one of the hottest chillies

Farmers collect "Bhut jolokia," or "ghost chili" peppers from their field during harvest season in Nagaon district of Assam , India on May 4 , 2023 .The ghost pepper, also known as bhut jolokia, is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India. It is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense and Capsicum frutescens. In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the ghost pepper was the world's hottest chili pepper, 170 times hotter than Tabasco sauce.