On Sun, 09 Aug 2015 20:35:57 -0700, isw > wrote:

> Walking around yesterday (in the north SF bay area), I came across some
> really nice looking pepper plants in a front yard -- probably at least
> four feet high. The peppers were maybe 2 1/2 inches long, thin like
> cayenne or tabasco peppers, with the pointy end up (stem down), and all
> the fruit were completely black.
>
> Just then, the homeowner came outside, so I asked him what kind of
> peppers they were. "Diablo".
>
> Well, I love peppers, so when I got home I googled for diablo pepper.
> The descriptions and photos all showed red, not black, fruit, which was
> hanging pointy end down.
>
> So what kind of pepper did this guy have in his front yard? Clearly they
> were being grown for culinary, not decorative, purposes.
>
> FWIW, I have a strong suspicion that the homeowner's first language was
> Spanish, not English -- not that this matters in any way except that
> there may have been an error in translation.
>

He was probably just trying to tell you they were hot. Did you take a
picture of the peppers with your phone camera? It could aide you in a
search. Go to Google Image and enter "black chile pepper", there are
quite a few choices - only you will be able to decide what it was you
saw.

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