Pequin peppers are hot, often 5–8 times hotter than jalapeños on the Scoville scale (30,000 to 60,000 Units).

[2] Pequin pepper originates in the Mexican state of Tabasco, where it's widely used to make salsa or as a complement to many dishes.

Pequin has a compact habit, growing typically 0.3–0.6 meters tall, with bright green, ovate leaves and small berries that rarely exceed 2 cm in length.

In the wild, Pequins grow in the understory of trees as perennials; under cultivation, they are grown as annuals as disease susceptibilities limits their growth.

From sea level, it is located up to 1300 m. In the types of vegetation where it can found in; high evergreen and low evergreen rainforest, low deciduous forest, deciduous forest and generally secondary vegetation derived from them.

It is possible to find them in undisturbed sites of the low deciduous forest, as well as along the roads, in orchards, pastures and under the remaining vegetation on the banks of cultivation fields.