Star Scream Super Stinger

Star Scream Super Stinger is a modern superhot pepper circulating through Matt's Peppers as a Star Scream-derived line. The current live product description presents it as an ultra squiggly orange pepper with strong heat and a profile suited to powders and superhot sauces. Recent grower discussion identifies it more specifically as an accidental cross that came from a customer's Star Scream plant, with the customer naming the original F1 Super Stinger because that first expression carried a pronounced stinger.

Its present identity in seed trade is centred on its twisted, heavily contorted pod shape and orange mature colour rather than a smooth or uniform superhot form. The line is tied back to Star Scream, which is itself a Capsicum chinense cross from James Mallon between Jay's Red Ghost Scorpion and Yellow Carolina Reaper, and that background fits the way Super Stinger is presented now as a very hot, sauce-oriented pepper rather than a mild novelty line.

Major factual conflict: current live seller presentation treats Star Scream Super Stinger as a named pepper in its own right, while recent grower discussion states that it is an accidental Star Scream cross and that the F2 seeds now being sold often produce a different phenotype with little or no stinger compared with the original F1 that inspired the name.