BarryB
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Green Pepper variants

I bought a few green pepper plants this spring. I thought I was getting conventional green bell peppers.

However, they are growing rather oddly shaped. They are sharing large-pot space with cucumber vines and as a result maybe are not getting as much light as they'd like.

Can anyone ID what variety of pepper these may be?
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Welcome to the forum!

Did they say that they were bell peppers, or sweet peppers, or something like that? There are many varieties of peppers that have a shape like that, sweet and hot. I have one this year that is fairly common - Peppadew. That's a trademarked name, but there are similar peppers out there.

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I've taken a couple of better photos with my camera (my phone camera can't do good close-ups).
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I've been "Googling" around and am thinking they could be "Scotch Bonnet" peppers ...

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I’m thinking the shape looks more like one of the South American species. (came back to add — yeah that sounds like an oxymoron ... meant somewhat like Brazillian Starfish or maybe Mushroom Chile — that one is Jamaican I guess)

You could give one a taste to see if it is indeed a hot pepper or mild. (They can be aggressive even when green — be careful if you are not used to super hot pppers — tiny bit and have milk or ice cream on stand by)

Here is one of my favorite on-line catalogs for peppers to use as ID reference — you might want to take a look.
https://www.chileplants.com/

— let us know if you find out. :wink:

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Scotch Bonnet.... isn't that a hot pepper?



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