Doug Irvine wrote: !Also, bought an ornamental at a store the other day, it > is loaded with peppers, purple turning red and then more deep red, about > 1 1/2 inches in length, and growing straight up, quite fat little > beggars...any ideas? Have not tasted one yet, but that is next! Cheers, > Doug in BC Hi Doug, This sounds very much like the Black Namagualand that I wrote about recently. Seems that it originated in South Africa. Pretty hardy as have survived the mild winter being sheltered by a tangerine tree from any of the almost light frost here this winter. They have been very easy to raise from seed also. Tony Flynn