Chilli pepper: Black Pearl

Description

This variety is from Peak Week Pods. JC Terblanche says: ‘Black Pearl pepper is a cultivar of Capsicum annuum. It is characterized by distinctive black leaves and fruit. It was developed by Arboretum Floral and Nursery Plants Research Unit scientists Rob Griesbach and John Stommel of the Agricultural Research Service’s Vegetable Laboratory. This pepper plant is notably similar to another strain named the Black Hungarian, another designer pepper plant. Though edible (the flavour has a citrus undertone with a slow burn between 4 and 12 times hotter than a jalapeño on the Scoville Scale), it is considered an ornamental plant. The Black Pearl has characteristic semi-gloss black to deep-purple leaves with peppers that are black and turn an almost translucent crimson when fully ripened. They make perfect container plants and are ideal for beginner chilli growers. 

20 seeds