Description: Broad-spreading, round top, green, zigzagging twigs bearing many small, white flowers followed by small, red peppers 
Height: To 7 ft, usually half that 
Flowers: Small, white, solitary or in pairs, 0.3 inches wide; throughout year 
Fruit: Small-red (ripe), pungent peppers 
Foliage: Simple, alternate, oval leaves with smooth edges or with tiny teeth, dull-green above, paler below, to 1.5 inch long 
Spines: Unarmed 
Bark: Green to light-brown 
Growth Rate: Fast 

Requirements: 
Sun: Naturally in partial shade, to full sun 
Soil: Loamy 
Drainage: Medium 
Water: Medium 
Maintenance: Little 
Propagation: Seeds 

Native Habitat: Riparian woodland, mesquite-granjeno woods, chaparrals 

Wildlife Use: 
Fruit - Wild Turkey, Northern Mockingbird 
Comments: All peppers are cultivars of this species