Orange Teapot

Orange Teapot is a named Capsicum chinense pepper grown for its distinctive teapot-like fruit shape, with pods described as swollen through the middle and narrowing to a pointed tip. Current exact-name sources describe it as very hot, ripening to a bright orange final colour, and being well suited to powders, sauces, fresh sauce, and oil preparations.

The plant is described as compact to medium in size, reaching about 45.5 to 61.0 cm tall, with green leaves and pendant fruit. ChilePlants lists the pods at about 4.0 to 4.5 cm long and 9.5 to 12.7 mm wide, with medium-thin flesh and a very late season of 90 or more days. The mature fruit is consistently described as orange rather than red, and the line is treated as an ornamental-edible hot pepper rather than a standard market type.

The earliest located public reference under the Orange Teapot name appears in a grower forum post dated February 17, 2016, where the variety was listed among acquired seed stock. By 2018 Pepperfriends had documented the pepper with photographs and a formal database entry, describing it specifically as a variety with typical teapot-shaped fruit. In current specialist trade it continues to circulate through pepper seed sellers as a rare named orange chinense type.

A major factual conflict exists over the origin field. Pepperfriends lists the origin as USA, but the same entry also states that the variety is of unknown origin and perhaps from America, while CHILLIESontheWEB lists the origin as unknown. That conflict affects the country-of-origin field but does not change the pepper's core identity as a very hot orange Capsicum chinense with a characteristic teapot-shaped pod.