Cheongyang chili pepper

The Cheongyang chili pepper is a medium-sized chili cultivar of the species Capsicum annuum, with intensity of 10,000 Scoville heat units. Cheongyang chili peppers look similar to regular chili pepper">Chili pepper">chili peppers, but are many times spicier.
The chili is a local speciality of Cheongyang County in South Korea. However, it was named after Cheongsong and Yeongyang Counties when developed by Yoo Il-Woong, by hybridizing local Jeju Province chili with Thai chili. The fruits can be light purple or green when unripe, and darken to a deep red as they ripen. The peppers retain their dark red color when dried. In the 1990s, the rights of the pepper were sold to Monsanto.