Sweet Yellow Bull's Horn

Sweet Yellow Bull's Horn is the yellow Italian bull's horn pepper known in Italian seed and garden trade as Corno di Toro Giallo. It is an old Italian heirloom that was already in Italy before 1920, and it has remained tied to Italian cooking and market-garden tradition ever since. The name refers directly to the fruit shape, which resembles a bull's horn, and it is widely treated as one of the classic Italian sweet frying and roasting peppers.

The plant is usually robust, branched, and productive, commonly reaching about 80.0 cm tall. The pods are long, tapered, and slightly curved, generally about 20.5 to 25.0 cm long and about 5.0 to 7.5 cm wide. They begin green and ripen to bright yellow or yellow-orange, with smooth skin, a horn-like outline, and sweet flesh that is described as juicy, crisp, and fairly thick despite the fine outer skin.

Its culinary identity is a major part of its history. Sweet Yellow Bull's Horn is repeatedly associated with frying, grilling, roasting, stuffing, marinating, salads, and fresh eating, and it is especially valued because the long fruit keep good sweetness and texture whether used raw or cooked. Current descriptions repeatedly frame it as a classic kitchen pepper rather than a novelty type, with strong productivity and dependable flavour being the traits that kept it in circulation.