Aji Torsten

Aji Torsten is a named Capsicum baccatum line circulating through the specialist pepper trade via Matt’s Peppers, where the description is credited to baus. In current public listings it is presented as an orange-ripening variety of unclear origin, and by 2025 it was already in growers’ hands through Matt’s Peppers seed sales.

The plant is defined by very dark foliage, giving it a strong ornamental look even before the fruit fully matures. Public images tied to the current listing show foliage that reads as deep purple to nearly black, with the ripe fruit standing out sharply against it. That dark vegetative colour is one of the main features attached to the name in current circulation.

The fruit is elongated, pendant, and heavily bumpy, usually about 5.0 to 10.0 cm long. Current listing material shows the pods finishing orange, with a slightly peach-orange cast in photographed ripe fruit. Their surface is rough and wrinkled rather than smooth, and the overall form is narrow, tapering, and distinctly aji-like.

In current circulation, Aji Torsten is treated as a visually distinctive dark-foliaged aji line rather than as a standard old market pepper. Its core identity is stable across the available references: a dark-leaved Capsicum baccatum with bumpy elongated pods, orange maturity, and an origin that is not firmly pinned to a named breeder or locality in the current public trade descriptions.