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Cascabel
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- This article is about the plant. For the tropical rattlesnake, see Crotalus durissus. For the ghost town, see Cascabel, Arizona.
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The cascabel is a small, round, hot chilli pepper that is prized for the hot, burning sensation that it produces in the mouth when consumed. It is a cultivar of the species Capsicum annuum. Its name is a Spanish word for "small bell" or "rattle".
The pepper, when dried makes a rattling noise and as such can be used to make music.
The plant can grow to more than 1 meter and grows in the wild on the Pacific coast of Mexico.
It is also known as chile bola, bola chile, rattle chile, and coba.
Cascabel is a handbell ensemble. Please see Cascabel Site
The word cascabel can also mean:
- A knob at the end of a cannon, cast onto the gunbarrel, to which ropes are attached.
- A bell attached to a sleigh or sleigh harness.
- Any of the North American pit vipers known as rattlesnakes.