The Peach Habanero is a striking color variant of the classic habanero with beautiful creamy peach pods and intense fruity heat. It delivers a slightly sweeter, citrusy tropical flavor than standard orange habaneros while maintaining serious spiciness. Perfect for vibrant hot sauces, salsas, and adventurous dishes.
The Peach Habanero stands out among Capsicum chinense varieties for its soft peach-to-salmon hue that develops as the peppers ripen from green. Pods are typically lantern- or pod-shaped, wrinkled, and measure 1.5 to 3 inches long by about 1 to 1.25 inches wide, slightly longer than many other habaneros. The flavor is distinctly sweet and fruity with bright citrus and tropical notes, making it one of the sweeter-tasting habanero strains despite the heat. Scoville heat ranges from 150,000 to 350,000 SHU with a median around 250,000, placing it firmly in the superhot category and roughly 18 to 140 times hotter than a jalapeño. Plants are compact and bushy, reaching only 18 inches to 1.5 feet tall, which makes them excellent for containers and small gardens. They produce high yields in 70 to 100 days. Popular uses include colorful hot sauces, fresh salsas, peach habanero jelly, pickling, grilling, and even cocktails where the peach color adds visual appeal. This variety was developed as a unique strain of the orange habanero by Amish farmer James Weaver in Pennsylvania, USA.
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The Peach Habanero is a unique color strain of the orange habanero developed by Amish farmer James Weaver at Meadow View Farm in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. It emerged as a natural variation prized for its beautiful peach hue and slightly sweeter flavor profile while retaining classic habanero heat and fruitiness.
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Reach out →Sweet and fruity with citrus and tropical notes; slightly sweeter and less intense in sweetness than the common orange habanero
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