are the weak habeneros at supermarkets real habaneros?

[swede]

I bought some habaneros at the supermarket. They look ok, but they are very mild. :o Tastes a bit like bell pepper, exept it has a mild hot flavor.

Anyone know if these are real habeneros? I didn't know it was possible for habaneros to be this mild. :?

here's a photo: http://img274.imageshack.us/img274/5048/test0025yc.jpg

[Sickmont]

Hmmm....i've gotten some from Publix before and they've been downright violent...i've never got any that were mild or weak before.

[Sickmont]

Actually, now that i look at them, they don't look like true habaneros, but then again, i'm not an expert, either.

[chuk hell]

Those are some cool looking peppers!

They look hot. They look like scotch bonnets to me.

Strange.

[fatalliman]

The mild habs they sell in stores or seed compamies they have labeled suave habs, a dead ringer for orange habs. there is a lot of tobago sweet that looks like habs, but those look like a bishops crown to me.
how much heat is there? what market and where is the region did you get them from?
ML

[P_Schneider]

Those peppers are what as know as a bishop's crown. They are part of the habanero family but they are not as hot as say your orange habs or fatalli type hab peppers. I believe they originated in barbados.

[swede]

how much heat is there? what market and where is the region did you get them from?
ML

I think these habaneros were grown in greenhouses in holland/europe. The taste was very fruity, but there was not much heat at all. I used them in spaghetti sauce and the heat was about the same that I get when I add some tabasco sauce.

[fatalliman]

Check out this pic,

http://juuri.org/fatalii/?u=g&c=general&id=9


That's a cool site!