Scotch Bonnets are often confused with the habanero, as they are closely related, but not cultivars. They are a pale yellow-green maturing to yellow, orange or red and have bell-shaped squashed-looking ribbed pods. Scotch bonnets are often confused with the habanero, as they are closely related, but not cultivars. They are a pale yellow-green maturing to yellow, orange or red and have bell-shaped squashed-looking ribbed pods. Scotch bonnets have a somewhat smoky apple-cherry and tomato flavor (if you are able to discern a flavor under all of that fiery heat). Scotch bonnets are grown mostly in Jamaica and Belize. Extremely hot. Scoville Heat Units: 200,000-325,000 - That's VeryHOT!

Habanero peppers are round and squat with a slightly pointed end and are orange to deep red when mature. These large-leafed chili pepper plants grow to about 3½ feet tall and do best with long hot summers. While these are the hottest of popular chile peppers, anyone that can handle the heat will enjoy the sweet, plum tomato-apple flavor that resides somewhere under all of the fire. Extremely hot. Scoville Heat Units: 300,000 Scoville Units - That's VeryHOT!