Yellow street peppers

b3rnd · Jun 21, 2017

Hey guys. When walking around town I saw a pepper plant planted around a city tree. Probably someone used the space to plant their peppers or something. I picked a few ripe ones, but I have no idea what they are. It seemed to have one pepper per node. I've not seen seeds of this kind in the local stores here, nor fresh ones anywhere. The pods have pretty thin walls, filled to the brim with seeds. The hotness is close to habanero I guess, long lingering and with a sharp sting straight away. Hope someone can assist IDing them!

Here are some pics:

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Hybrid Mode 01 · Jun 21, 2017

Hopefully they taste bad. Otherwise the person who planted it might miss them.

Hawaiianero · Jun 21, 2017

Those look like the pickled Cascabella peppers you find in a jar at the grocery store.

SmokenFire · Jun 21, 2017

Maybe bulgarian carrot?

b3rnd · Jun 22, 2017

Hybrid_Mode_01 said:
Hopefully they taste bad. Otherwise the person who planted it might miss them.

They have a pretty basic annuum taste, nothing special. The plant is on public property so I saw no harm in taking a few. It is quite a big plant with probably 70+ peppers.

Hawaiianero said:
Those look like the pickled Cascabella peppers you find in a jar at the grocery store.

Thanks! They seemed to be in their final stage of ripening already, and from what I've read the Cascabella ripens from yellow, through orange to red.

SmokenFire said:
Maybe bulgarian carrot?

Isn't the Bulgarian Carrot more orange? These are bright yellow..

The Hot Pepper · Jun 22, 2017

datil maybe

beerbreath81 · Jun 22, 2017

looks like a Cascabella Pepper to me

Diafond · Jun 22, 2017

Did it look like the plant had been planted or could it be volunteer?

b3rnd · Jul 2, 2017

The Hot Pepper said:
datil maybe

I think it had one fruit per node, so that would rule any Chinense out? I will check back on the plant later, maybe didn't I didn't see it right. I'll snap a pic of the whole plant too.

beerbreath81 said:
looks like a Cascabella Pepper to me

I walked by the plant today, and there is not one red pepper on there. All the peppers ripen to yellow, and seem to stay yellow. So I think Cascabella seems to be ruled out, because those ripen to red.

Diafond said:
Did it look like the plant had been planted or could it be volunteer?

I'm not sure what you mean by volunteer, but I'm pretty sure it was planted.

b3rnd · Jul 5, 2017

Here's a pic of the whole plant.

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