Re: [CH] Strange Pepper - Need I. D. please!
chefmad (chefmad@earthlink.net)
Tue, 14 Jan 2003 12:23:40 -0800
I don't think they would be nightshade - just because lots of the Asian
restaurants in town have them growing in planter boxes close to their
buildings. Coincidence?!! Probably not. One in back of a Vietnamese
restaurant was actually on its way to becoming a tree - very thick, woody
trunk and real
bushy. Again, the peppers are shaped like pequins, petins, chiltepins -
whatever you want to call them. I noticed that a couple of the peppers were
orange-red colored also (on the same bush.) The rest were mostly eggplant
dark in color, and not round.
chefmad
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From: kuhlwlf <kuhlwlf@santafesurf.com>
Subject: Re: [CH] Strange Pepper - Need I. D. please!
I have had nightshade growing under one of our trees but the berries were
small and round. They didn't look like peppers, they looked like berries.
At 08:02 AM 1/10/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>If they ripen to a dark purple (almost black) and if the leaves are dark
>green-sometimes with a dark purple shading, then what you've got is
>NIGHTSHADE!!!! I had some of thise in MY yard too (growning where I
>normally plant my peppers). I'm glad I checked it out before tasting any
>of them.
>
>http://kaweahoaks.com/html/nightshade.html
>
>On Thursday, January 09, 2003, at 09:55PM, John Caldwell
><jcald@3wheel.net> wrote:
>
> >hmm... that sounds like the "black cuban" or "black prince", but those
are
> >black until they ripen, at which point they turn red. What do the leaves
> >look like? The leaves are fairly dark for both of those. Also, what
color
> >are the flowers?