Puta Parió confussion

Browsing through the chileman.org database, I found the infamous Puta Pario, a damn hot chile native to my country.

But the photo differs from what I know

This is the photo in the chileman.org database:


And this is what we call Puta Pario:


As you can see, it's not only longer, but also a lot more pointy...

I've been growing plants since being a small child, and always heard of it as "Puta Pario"... now I'm a little confused.

There is some duplication in pepper names. Different regions in South America might have slightly different versions of Puta Pario peppers, especially since it sounds like your version is one that is handed down locally rather then produced commercially. Be careful, or everyone here will be begging you for seeds!

I grow a Pimiento De Chiero pepper that I get from www.chileplants.com . It's a yellow jelly bean looking pepper, and I have seen pictures of at least two other peppers that are called Pimiento De Chiero; but one is red, and one is gold and habanero shaped. I spoke with the Chilewomen (www.thechilewoman.com) because she offeres the red one, and she said that almost every region in South America had its own variety of Pimiento De Chiero pepper, and that she had seeds for 6 or 7.

*yawn*

Sorry, I hope I'm making sense, but I'm really tired tonight.

I guess you got the point Pam...

Just visited www.chileplants.com, didn't know it. There is an Aconcagua in the main page... those are native to Argentina too, but very very sweet. It's what we call "morrones".

Going back to Puta Parió. You're probably right, I should check if it's called the same in other countries such as Uruguay or Brazil, I have many friends from these countries, so that won't be difficult.

The Puta Parió variety is NOT commercial, that's for sure. It's even difficult to get it at the big stores, you have to go search for it in small countryside or very specialized shops. Or of course, you can grow your own ;-)

I have quite a lot of seeds, by the way, and there is a fellow forum member that's gonna get his hands on some of them very very soon...

In Mexico, north of Mexico city, chilaca is called chilaca.

In Oaxaca, same chile is called chile negro.

Chile naming conventions change with geography as well as purveyor.