Does anyone have any knowledge where the Hawaiian chili pepper could have come from originally. There are a couple different varieties that I know of, this one being the smaller and hotter of the two. Not sure when chiles first made it too the islands. Cook didn't make it here until 1778 so I'm guessing sometime after that.
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History of the Traveling Chile
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I would assume the Portuguese/Asian populations introduced them at some stage when they were brought in/came in to work on the sugarcane plantations sometime after Cook in 1800-1890?? I really have no idea though however that would be my guess and as to their exact origin/species that would probably require some DNA comparison to have any idea.
That pic you posted looks alot like...
Jindungo pod
Jindungo Plant
The Portuguese brought these from Brasil to Africa and Europe, maybe they stopped at Hawaii a hundred years later or something.
Bleash
That would be my guess too!!
