One BIG exception folks, the Jerusalem Cherry (Solanum pseudocapsicum) is often sold as an ornamental pepper. That one YOU DO NOT WANT TO EAT! True ornamental peppers are edible, but usually not bred for taste ... RE: Ornamental Peppers edible?
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Ornamental peppers provide great color all through the growing season, can withstand high heat and require little care. Mine, growing in hanging baskets, reseed themselves every year. The fruit is edible, but be sure to test it out with a small nibble because some are very hot!!
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Its fruit is edible and is medium hot. (Note: The Christmas Cherry which is often grown as an indoor ... Being taller and the foliage darker than the other 'Explosive' ornamental peppers, it can be planted in beds in the background with the other cultivars in the foreground creating a really spectacular show of color...
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ORNAMENTAL PEPPER Capsicum hybrid Grown For Ornamental Fruit Blooms Fall - Spring *Use for mass plantings or in containers; *Variety of fruit shapes and colors available ... Continuous-fruiting with hot, edible peppers. Dark purple, cone-shaped fruite matures to bright red; dark purple leaves. Vigorous, upright, 10-12" tall.
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Tangerine Dream is a sweet, edible ornamental pepper that produces small orange banana-shaped fruit on a prostrate plant. Stommel and Griesbach look forward to releasing several new pepper cultivars in the future, including one with spreading black foliage and colorful upright peppers with a spicy flavor.
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Are ornamental peppers edible? ... Ornamental peppers are edible and may be prepared as other peppers. The Jerusalem cherry peppers (ground cherry, Chinese lantern and strawberry tomato, horse nettle and wild tomato) are poisonous. If the variety is not known, do not use.
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Varieties of ornamental peppers: Small fruit, 1-3.5 cm. Attractive colors: ... Watering & fertilization: As for edible peppers. Plant protection: Susceptible to Powdery Mildew. Planting distances: There should be 80-100cm between rows, 30cm between plants. Can be grown in flowerpot (minimum 3 liters volume per plant)
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Colorful 2 to 3 inch long narrow hot peppers erupt into a riot of color atop short, compact plants for a gorgeous ornamental display. Peppers start out yellow, progress to orange, ... Riot was developed by Dr. Jim Baggett at Oregon State University, and although classified as ornamental, the peppers are edible. 60-70 days.
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My experience had been that ornamental peppers were edible, but so incredibly hot that most people would not be able to eat them. This year I broke open some dried ornamental peppers I had saved for seed years ago to try and grow them, and regretted not being more careful in handling them.
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Incredible, edible, ornamental sweet peppers from Flower & Garden Magazine provided by Find Articles at BNET ... Incredible, edible, ornamental sweet peppers by Thomas Eltzroth...
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