** FOR USE WITH AP LIFESTYLES ** Farmer Digonta Saikia shows a "Bhut jolokia" or "ghost chili" pepper plucked from his field in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Wednesday, July 4, 2007 ...

Bhut Jolokia or Naga Mircha from India's northeast was recorded as the world's hottest chilli pepper in 2007. It is becoming a victim of its fame and witnessing an erosion in its heat quotient.

The bhut jolokia crushed those contenders, testing at 1,001,304 Scoville units. Small amounts of bhut jolokia are grown elsewhere, including Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

CHANGPOOL, India — The farmer, a quiet man with an easy smile, has spent a lifetime eating a chile pepper with a strange name and a vicious bite. His mother stirred it into sauces. His wife puts ...

Guwahati, May 6: Tea bushes will soon be jostling for space with bhut jolokia with garden managements seeing hot business opportunities in the latter.. Several big companies having tea gardens in ...

Guwahati, India -- The bhut jolokia chili pepper fires up the imagination, as well as the taste buds. The thumb-sized chilies are so potent they could be used in pepper spray, says the director of ...

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View full size(AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)In this July 4, 2007 file photo, farmer Digonta Saikia shows a "Bhut jolokia" or "ghost chili" pepper plucked from his field in the northeastern Indian ...

The chilies are so loved in Assam that locals brighten at just the mention of bhut jolokia. “I’ve been eating them for 25 years,” says Indrajit Karayan Dev, a filmmaker in Guwahati, Assam ...

Bhut jolokia is a small chile typically of a red or orange color and can have bumpy or smooth skin. The peppers are about 2.5-3.5 inches long and 1 inch wide, about the size of your thumb.