I dont knoww the name of these but they are beautiful . They are white purple with splashes of pink .
the flowers are purple and the peppers start out dark purple and turn orange and then red.
I would love to trade some of these. Please make offer. I love hibiscus and really just about any flowers .
have Tri colored ornamental pepper seeds
I have been through your town years and just loved it. I have a lot of seed to share. I will send some of each and would love some pepper thanks. Bev dmail me!!
dearheart. sound like what you have are ornamental Thai peppers . . . when the fruit is dried you got lava to spice up your food - really spice up your food!
the DG PlantFiles have this == >> http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/97431/
my eldest daughter had some friends over after school one day, several girls and one boy. he saw the basket i kept on the kitchen island in which i let these peppers dry out while keeping them handy for cooking use ... and he decided to show off his machismo by picking one up and biting into it. i never heard those girls laugh so hard and so long as when this kid immediately went into full panic mode - eyes buggin' out with streams of tears running down his cheeks, clasping his throat and gasping for water ... he ran out the back door and put a lip lock on the outside faucet but the effects did not subside for more than an hour.
heck, all i ever dared to do was to put one dried pepper into a soup or into cooking oil when doing stir fry for flavour - - and then discarding it. never, ever, have i consumed these things in any other way.
Lazlo,
The pic is not the same as what I have . Mine the foliage is verigated tri color.Purple stems and leaves splashed with white and pink. But Yes they are VERY HOT. My fingers are still hot from getting the seeds ouot. Tried to soak in vinagar to get the capsasin out but it only helped its not gone yet.LOL
My hubby ate one of those lil peppers in some chinese food. I thought he was gonna croak ! his eyes were tearing and he got real red. HEHEHEH I had to laugh at him cause I warned him how hot they were .
yes - whomever handles this plant or its fruit must immediately wash hands for several minutes with vigorous scrubbing and constant flooding with water, esp. using a nail brush because the capsasin oil can attach to dust and will play hell with mucousal membranes if touched after handling these plants or their fruit without a most thourough wash-up.
I never saw the point of fooling with food that can burn you. I like a little spice in food and some heat is good in some dishes but when it gets to the point where your taste buds fry I'm out. You end up not tasting anything except pepper. One night I had tuna with a mango and scotch bonnet peppers. Good dish at first but after hitting the peppers a few times I really couldn't taste anything except for cold (mango) and flaming hot (peppers). Interesting simple dish but the peppers were just to much.
This message was edited Oct 18, 2007 12:28 PM
This pic is a little off, overcast day I think, sounds like Flouresent Purple. Could this be your pepper?
Sorry not the greatest representative, the foliage is more varigated.
This message was edited Oct 18, 2007 12:20 PM
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/74195/
the link I found it on daves
Capsicum annuum 'Variegata'