Are hungarian yellow peppers, yellow wax peppers and banana peppers the same. moderator's note: added a more descriptive title to topic
At less than 500 Scoville units Banana peppers or yellow wax peppers are one in the same. On the other hand Hungarian wax peppers chime in at 5000 to 15000 Scoville units and are on occasion sold as banana peppers to liven up the festivities. Just as a reference, your garden variety green bell pepper is a 0 and a Habanero chili burns the scale in the 200,000 range depending on when it is picked. Melting the scale is the world's hottest pepper at 855,000, the Naga King Chili. Jerry
I don't think they are all the same. Banana peppers come in sweet and hot. Banana Bill and Sweet Spot are sweet banana peppers. Hungarian Yellow Wax and hot banana names are often interchanged, HYW is the pepper variety, banana is the shape, hot describes its heat or scoville units, so I would think they are the same, unless there is another name with the pepper, such as INFERNO hot banana. HYW is an open pollinated the seed and are cheep (Op seeds are 100 to a packet and hybrid 25/pkt in my catalog). Inferno is a hybrid and the seeds are NOT cheep, you will find the hybrids more often labeled with the actual named variety on the tag. If someone says "yellow wax" to me I automatically think of beans, not peppers. Maybe that is regional, though.