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pod-i.d. Help identifying chinense pepper

So, the Murupi Amarela plant I'm growing this year turns out to not be a Murupi Amarela.
I'm quite certain I havent mixed up my labels and I'm also not growing any variety that should look like this, so I could use some help in trying to figure out what it is.
First some images:
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Most of the pods look like the ripe one, quite small and with a pear shape, but there are a few pods that look like the unripe one which is bigger and more elongated. There are quite a few pods, so the plant is fairly prolific.
Some of the early leaves were absolutely humongous at about 7" (18cm) in length and perhaps 4" (10cm) wide.
The one I cut open and ate had citrus aroma and citrus flavor. The heat was intense and mostly stayed in the front of the mouth and it was at least in Habanero territory but it could actually be a bit above 500K SHU.

Everything about this plant and the peppers tells me that it's a chinense, but I could be wrong of course.
The peppers do look like Yellow Bullet Habanero, but I did grow that in hydro this year and apart from looks there is nothing else similar between them. Different taste, heat and plant foilage.

So, any ideas what this might be?
 
Solution
Thanks for the datil suggestion @The Hot Pepper!

That made me go back and check my notes prior to this season because I know I considered growing the datil, but it turns out I never added it to the list.
Anyway, I decided to check what I actually planned to grow and on that list was "Cumari".
There are a few different Cumari variants and I actually don't know which one I have seeds for, but Cumari do Paru fits my plant perfectly. Plant growth, flowers and peppers all match.

So I must have mixed up my labels at some point 🫣
But I think the mystery is solved
Thanks! Looked a little bit similar at first glance but those are bigger than my peppers and the described heat for that variety does not match what I felt when trying my unknown peppers.
Also I think the plant in the video does not match how mine looks
 
Datil ticks a lot of boxes and from my image search it seems the Datil peppers can be small, which is the only thing not really fitting.
Most of the peppers on my plant are at most 0.5" in length and the few big ones are about 1.5".

So yeah, datil is a possibility I guess
 
Thanks for the datil suggestion @The Hot Pepper!

That made me go back and check my notes prior to this season because I know I considered growing the datil, but it turns out I never added it to the list.
Anyway, I decided to check what I actually planned to grow and on that list was "Cumari".
There are a few different Cumari variants and I actually don't know which one I have seeds for, but Cumari do Paru fits my plant perfectly. Plant growth, flowers and peppers all match.

So I must have mixed up my labels at some point 🫣
But I think the mystery is solved
 
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