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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Solanales |
| Family: | Solanaceae |
| Genus: | Capsicum |
| Species: | |
| Variety: | C. a. var. glabriusculum
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| Trinomial name | |
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| Heat |  Exceptionally hot |
| Scoville scale | 465,000–1,629,000, or 325,000–2,469,000[3] SHU |
Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum, a chili-pepper variety of Capsicum annuum, is native to southern North America and northern South America.[2] Common names include chiltepín, Indian pepper, grove pepper, chiltepe, and chile tepín, as well as turkey, bird’s eye, or simply bird peppers (due to their consumption and spread by wild birds; "unlike humans birds are impervious to the heat of peppers").[4] Tepín is derived from a Nahuatl word meaning "flea". This variety is the most likely progenitor of the domesticated C. annuum var. annuum.[5] Another similar-sized pepper, 'Pequin' (also called 'piquin') is often confused with tepin, although the tepin fruit is round to oval where as the pequin's fruit is oval with a point, and the leaves, stems and plant structures are very different on each plant.
- ^ "Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum, Cayenne Pepper. NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
- ^ a b "Capsicum annuum var. glabriusculum". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
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measurement-bundlewas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Seed Stories - Chiltepin Pepper: Wild Chile of the Borderlands. Rare Seeds (documentary). October 18, 2019. Event occurs at 1:13. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
- ^ Singh, Ram J. (2006). Genetic Resources, Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Vegetable crops. CRC Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-8493-9646-5.