Capsicum frutescens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Solanales
Family:	Solanaceae
Genus:	Capsicum
Species:	C. frutescens
Binomial name
Capsicum frutescens L.

Capsicum frutescens is a species of chili pepper that includes the following cultivar and varieties:

• Piri piri, African birdseye, or African devil
• Malagueta pepper
• Tabasco pepper, used to make Tabasco sauce
• Thai pepper, also called Chili Padi^{[verification needed]} or Siling labuyo^{[verification needed]}

According to Richard Pankhurst, C. frutescens (known as barbaré) was so important to the national cuisine of Ethiopia, at least as early as the 19th century, "that it was cultivated extensively in the warmer areas wherever the soil was suitable."^[1] Although it was grown in every province, barbaré was especially extensive in Yejju, "which supplied much of Showa as well as other neighboring provinces." He singles out the upper Golima river valley as being almost entirely devoted to the cultivation of this plant, where thousands of acres were devoted to the plant and it was harvested year round.^[2]

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