Photo of the peppers. Waiting for the suckers to turn red!

Looks like tepin/chiltepin. I wouldn't move it, Looks to be pretty darn established and happy. Why move it?

Kevin

fwiw...

http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/species/sopt3.htm

Here is a link that might be useful: Eastern Black Nightshade

I agree on the nightshade ID. You don't want to be eating those berries.

Also, in case you've eaten some...the berries aren't very toxic unless you ingest a whole lot of them.

Mild toxicity would be nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, etc...

It's not the "deadly nightshade" variety more commonly found west of the Rockies with the bad reputation.

Some people are quite tolerant of the mild amount of toxins in the berries and make jams/pies out of it...go figure.

Still...I wouldn't bother trying to make them edible...or playing around with what's a toxic dose for you. It's not worth it for the most part.

This post was edited by nc-crn on Wed, Sep 18, 13 at 22:19

I would say the nightshade ID is dead on according to the link posted. But as far as being toxic, I would say your might be better off eating one of those than a Bhut pod.

Thank you for the input everyone!

It definitely looks like the Eastern Black NIghtshade, like mentioned. I will just rip the plant out of the ground now.

I thought it was weird that there was multiple fruits rather than the single pepper with the chilitepin.

Much thanks.

scary concept. something that looks so much like a pepper...

Once again, My I.D. skills are poorly displayed. lol Does look sorta like a tepin though.
. Kevin

Indeed, Judo & Peppers. I had no idea there was such a plant that looked like the Tepin.

And Woohooman, same here. I agree, it does look like it a little tepin.That's why I posted the photos. Always good to get many opinions.

Oh well, my newest pepper venture will start in a couple months. I will try and start a thread since I created this account.

What makes it suspicious that it has multiple fruits cluster. But as far as I know that is not the growing habit of peppers.

I have seen nightshades with similar fruits bac in GA. Their fruts turned orange when ripe. The stem and leaves had thorn. ALSO, they looked more like eggplant than pepper. Flea beetle loved them just like eggplant.

Tepin is an annuum and does not bear multiple fruit on a node.

Not a tepin

Peppers, tomatoes, potatos and eggplants are members of the nightshade family.

wip ... correct but here NIGHTSHADE is referred to the deadly toxic ones.
Horse Nettles is referred to some of them as well.

This post was edited by seysonn on Fri, Sep 20, 13 at 6:18

There are multiple peppers out there who grow in clusters as well, for example, Yatzi Pepper, which I'm growing. But, there is no mistaking those bad boys.

nope, its a weed. time to get rid of it. But I will say by the picture it is a really pretty one!

plus the fruits were falling down rather than up, that was my first thought when I saw the second pic....yank that sucker