Guiji fire pepper

Guiji fire peppers were a type of pepper that was barely five centimeters in length and contained tiny red seeds. Edible to humans, consumption of condiment oil created with guiji fire peppers caused a fire-like sensation on one's tongue. Additionally, if they were consumed raw in excess, they could simulate the symptoms of the disease malongo pox, barring pus-filled blisters. During his tenure as a student of Reena University around 396 BBY,The High Republic: Convergence establishes that Axel Greylark was eighteen years old thirteen years prior to its events. As Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia dates the events of Convergence to 382 BBY, he must have been born in 413 BBY. Greylark is seventeen years old in "The Queen's Bloom," dating its events to around 396 BBY. Axel Greylark utilized several guiji fire peppers in such a manner to get out of participating in the Queen's Bloom Festival, though his ruse did not fool the dean of student affairs, Ry Harket. After Harket departed from his quarters, Greylark pulled one of the pepper's seeds out of his mouth as the falsified symptoms began to fade.
==Behind the scenes==
A seed of the guiji fire peppers appeared in "The Queen's Bloom," a short story in the 2023 anthology young-adult novel The High Republic: Tales of Light and Life, released as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project.
==Appearances==
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==Notes and references==
Category:Peppers