The Sweet Banana Pepper That Wasn't
When I brought the pepper plants for the veggie garden I included some sweet banana peppers; there is also a hot variety. I always grow sweet banana peppers each year and they are one of my favourite sweet pepper. However, the resulting peppers are not sweet banana peppers. I am not sure what type of peppers they are; they appear similar to a cayenne pepper when they are small. Cayenne peppers are one of the hot peppers that I grow each year and did as well this year. However, these peppers are much larger than cayenne and don't have the completely smooth surface of a cayenne. They are growing around 30 cm (1 ft) in length when straight but are also growing in spirals and corkscrew shapes. I am including photographs so my readers can help me identify this pepper. The tag with the plants stated they were sweet banana but evidently the tags were incorrect. I have yet to harvest any so I don't know of the flavour, or if they are hot or sweet peppers.
My curious pepper (click on image for a larger size) |
My curious pepper (click on image for a larger size) |
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