In article >,
sf > wrote:

> 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.

No photo, but I did search on black chile pepper, but nothing remotely
similar showed up.

Isaac