(Jalapeño Pepper, Mucho Nacho Pepper)

The large, abundantly produced, jalapeno-style fruits of 'Mucho Nacho' are excellent for salsa, sauces, and pickling. Like many hot peppers, this F1 hybrid is a member of the Longum group, which encompasses poblanos, serranos, jalapenos, cayenne peppers and various other chilis. These annual vegetables descend from varieties that were grown and selected by Native Americans for thousands of years.

The bushy, knee-high plants bear thin, oval, dark green leaves on stiff brittle stems. Inconspicuous...

(Hot Pepper, Numex Big Jim Hot Pepper)

In need of a gargantuan chile with great flavor and just the right amount of heat? Then 'Numex Big Jim' is your pepper. Its chiles reach over a foot in length and hold the record for the world's largest chile peppers. The extra long fleshy peppers turn from green to deep red and are moderately hot (500 to 2,500 SHU). They taste great in salsa and make excellent chile rellenos. Plants take 75 days to harvest.

The long, colorful, generally hot fruits of the chili pepper are invaluable in cuisines...

(Bell Pepper, Orange Belle II Pepper)

Expect a prolific and colorful crop of sweet fruits from 'Orange Belle II'. Relatively small (3-inch (8 cm)), four-lobed fruits of bright orange are produced on compact plants ideal for smaller garden spaces. About 85 days after planting from robust seedlings, green peppers are produced. These turn orange around three weeks later. The pretty fruits are perfect for salads, crudite platters and sautéing.

Native to tropical America, these annuals had been grown and selected by Native Americans...

(Bell Pepper, Orange Blaze Pepper)

A 2011 All-America Selection Winner, 'Orange Blaze' is a disease-resistant F1 hybrid that bears big, blocky, sweet bell pepper fruits that ripen to orange about 70 days after planting.

Native to tropical America, bell peppers are annuals or short-lived perennials that were grown and selected for millenia by Native Americans. Their specific region of origin is still unknown due to distribution by man. Peppers became available to Europeans when the New and Old worlds connected. Since then, many...

(Bell Pepper, Orange Sun Pepper)

Expect a prolific and colorful crop of sweet fruits from 'Orange Sun.' Large, four-lobed fruits of bright orange are produced on compact plants ideal for smaller garden spaces. About 75 t0 80 days after planting from robust seedlings, green peppers are produced. These turn orange around three weeks later. The crunchy, sweet, thick-walled fruits are perfect for salads, crudité platters and sautéing.

Native to tropical America, these annuals had been grown and selected by Native Americans...

(Banana Pepper, Park's Sweet Banana Whopper Pepper)

The large, sweetly flavored, "banana-type" peppers of this 1999 Park Seed introduction are abundantly produced on vigorous plants.

First cultivated and selected by Native Americans thousands of years ago, peppers are bushy, brittle-stemmed annual vegetables with thin oval leaves and small five-petaled flowers. The dull-white blooms of 'Park's Sweet Banana Whopper' are followed by carrot-shaped, 8-inch-long (20-cm), thick-fleshed peppers that ripen from yellow-green to pale yellow. The hollow,...

(Ornamental Pepper, Peppa Purple-Tangerine Pepper)

The colorful fruits of the cone pepper ‘Peppa Purple-Tangerine’ are usually grown ornamentals. The plants are compact and the peppers erect, conical with point tips that appear singly and not in clusters. The fruit color is an astounding lilac-purple maturing to fiery orange. Ornamental peppers are generally edible but they are not often evaluated for hotness or flavor. Care must be taken with plants grown by nurseries for ornamental purposes; they may have been treated with pesticides or other chemicals...

(Bell Pepper, Pinot Noir Pepper)

The fantastically colored sweet bell peppers, 'Pinot Noir', turn from pale lemon yellow to purple and then cherry red. Moreover, the thick-walled fruits are also crisp and sweet. Pale yellow peppers are ready to harvest about 68 to 70 days after planting from robust seedlings. It takes around three weeks for fruits to transition from purple to red. The 5-inch-long (10 cm) peppers look stunning when picked at different color stages and develop more sweetness with maturity.

Native to tropical...

(Ornamental Pepper, Purple Flash Ornamental Pepper)

Grown primarily as an ornamental plant, the Purple Flash cherry pepper is noted for its dark-hued foliage, compact vigorous growth, and black marble-sized fruit. Like all culinary peppers, cherry peppers (known botanically as the Cerasiforme group) trace their origin to the American tropics, where they have been cultivated since pre-Columbian times.

The bushy, calf-high plants bear thin, oval, black-purple leaves on stiff brittle stems. New leaves are splashed with white and bright purple....

(Ornamental Pepper, Red Missile Pepper)

The ornamental pepper 'Red Missile' produces upright clusters of showy flame-shaped fruits that change color as they mature. Although its fiery-hot fruits are edible, this cultivar was developed for ornamental use.

First cultivated and selected by Native Americans thousands of years ago, peppers are bushy, brittle-stemmed annual vegetables with thin oval leaves and small five-petaled flowers. The dull-white blooms of 'Red Missile' are followed by erect, conical, 2-inch (5-cm) fruits that ripen...