Dried Chile, richly flavored, brown, round chile from central Mexico, especially Michoacan. It's also called bola chile, because of its ball shape. Flavor is nutty, slightly smoky, and acidic.
The cascabel is a small, round, hot chile that is prized for the hot, burning sensation that it produces in the mouth when consumed. Flavorful and smoky with an acidic bite, used primarily for sauces and soups. When dried it makes a rattling noise and as can be used for percussion. The plant can grow to more than one meter and grows in the wild on the Pacific coast of Mexico.
Cascabel has been at Chapultepec Park in Mexico City since 1991, when that park received it from Kennywood, and Chapultepec Park would rename the Laser Loop, Kennywood's first looping roller coaster, Cascabel, Spanish meaning "bell". Built at Kennywood Park in 1980 by the German Anton Schwarzkopf - the same man who would eventually build Kennywood's Raging Rapids in the winter of 1984, built on the site of the Dipper, removed after the season to make room for the Raging Rapids.