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What is this ornamental pepper plant called?

comments (3) May 29th, 2009 in gallery

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I had this plant in Texas (actual picture) and just loved it.  Its leaves would turn dark with direct sun.  The peppers were yellow, orange, red, and purple.   I relocated and took many seed pods.  I haven't been able to find my seed pods.  I would really like to know the name and where I can find plants or seeds.  Any assistance would be appreciated 

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erwinrf writes: Ornamental peppers are in the family of hot peppers but are they safe to eat? Posted: 12:14 pm on August 12th
kevilicious writes: They may be "Texas Black Hot Peppers", check out this link.

http://www.reimerseeds.com/texas-black-hot-peppers.aspx Posted: 8:28 pm on May 30th
furballs writes: Boy, that's a tough question. There are so many varieties of small peppers, both ornamental and cherry peppers, and new ones coming every year.

From this picture, it is somewhat hard to tell what shape the fruits have. Are they round, or pointed or something else when they are mature ?

Many of the ornamental types show more than one colour as they mature,so you end up with multi colour fruits as your pic shows.

I had a quick peek online, and I found a site selling pepper seeds that has a cultivar listed with multiple fruit colours. The site is : http://www.pepperjoe.com/cgi-bin/web_store/Library/web_store.pl?page=seeds.html

The cultivar they listed is as follows. I'd guess they are round :-) at maturity by the name.

5 COLOR MARBLE
You harvest tons of these novel Hot Peppers in an explosion of fancy colors. From cream to white to yellow to purple to orange and then red. This gorgeous plant is the real show stopper! Very beautiful and very different. Compact growth makes it perfect for container gardening. You can grow this as an ornamental pepper as well.
$3.99 (10 seeds) Posted: 7:12 pm on May 29th
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