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The Herbón pepper

Padrón, Sar, A Coruña

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The Herbón pepper

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The Franciscans of the convent of Herbón brought the seed from America between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It has held a protected denomination of origin since 1995 and its fame comes from the fact that some are hot and others are not.

Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Lmbuga ) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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