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Many chili growers love the dark plants: some are ornamental ones, that mature from black to many bright different colours, and there are some cooking chilies, that mature from dark green to brown or purple-black.

The last year I showed some black ornamental chilies: this year I'm growing again some of them, like the amazing Black Pearl with black leaves and the variegated Little Nubian.
I'm also growing many new varieties with dark leaves or pods, ornamental or not.

The Peruvian Purple is an ornamental chili with purple pods and variegated leaves.

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I'm very happy to finally have a Chilhuacle Negro: it's a mexican dark chili, used in the chicken or turkey moles.

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Variegata Trifetti is famous for its variegated leaves, and its pods ripe from purple to red.

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Czechoslovakian Black produces black pods that ripen to purple and red.

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Ecuadorian Purple is an ornamental chili with green and purple leaves. Its pods ripen from dark purple to red.

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Rain Forest Tricolor is a rare ornamental chili, I'm admiring its variegated green and purple leaves, and I can't wait to see its pods.

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Read also the post The collector's garden Black Chilies.

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