Spaghetti Albino

Spaghetti Albino is a rare Capsicum annuum pepper circulated through collector and speciality seed networks, with commercial listings describing it as a South African variety and later US plant listings noting that stock was supplied through the Roughwood Seed Collection. It is grown for its very long, narrow fruit that gives the plant its spaghetti name, with pods described as looking like strings of pasta. Seller descriptions present it as a productive plant with green stems, green leaves, white flowers, and a plant height of about 61 to 91.5 cm.

The fruit is consistently described as long and slender, about 15.5 to 25.5 cm long and 9.5 to 13 mm wide, with medium-thick flesh and a hot but not superhot burn. Reimer Seeds lists it at 8500 SHU, while ChilePlants places it broadly in the hot category and describes it as a late-season pepper maturing in about 80 to 90 days. Use notes attached to current listings describe it as especially good for pickling, with Reimer also listing it for chilli and salads.

In current public circulation, Spaghetti Albino appears more as a named collector variety than as a mainstream commercial pepper, showing up in specialist pepper catalogues, hobby seed shops, and recent grower lists. A major conflict affects the ripe fruit colour field: Reimer Seeds and ChilePlants describe the pods as ripening from green to red, while WikiPepper lists Spaghetti Albino as ripening white or cream. Aside from that colour conflict, the live sources broadly agree on its core identity as a long, narrow, hot Capsicum annuum grown for its unusual pasta-like pod shape.