Tabasco peppers - think tobasco hot sauce.

Common Name and Species

Tabasco is a very pungent chile pepper cultivar of Capsicum frutescens.  Named after Tabasco Mexico. 

Tabasco peppers - red hot and just right for tobasco hot sauce.

Origin and History

Tabasco chiles originated in and around the Caribbean state of Tabasco Mexico.

Description

Tabasco peppers mature from green-yellow to yellow, orange, and red. Tabasco peppers are tiny, elongated, cylindrical and with a pointed tip.

Commercial cultivation - Zones and Regions

Tabasco is grown principally in the Gulf Coast states for commercial production of hot sauces.

How Used or Sample Recipe

Hot sauce:
• Tabasco Sauce ® (McIlhenny) uses aged Tabasco peppers [arguably both the world's greatest and most often underestimated hot sauce]
  other hot sauces based on the tabasco chile pepper, including:
• Crystal Hot Sauce (also uses aged tabasco peppers)
• Frank's Hot Sauce
• Louisiana Hot Sauce

Additional Resources

For additional information
• about Tabasco peppers including medicinal uses and a list of reference materials
• about chile peppers in the kitchen
• Check it all out in Chile Pepper Magazine.