White Devils Tongue

White Devils Tongue is a white-ripening Capsicum chinense cultivar known for its colour transitions and its twisted, “tongue-like” pod shape. Seller descriptions commonly note that the pods progress through several distinct colour stages during ripening.

Pods are typically reported around 5.0–7.5 cm long, with one source listing 5.0–7.0 cm and others describing fruit roughly 7.5 cm (3 inches). The pods usually begin light lime green, develop purple tones during the intermediate stage, and finally ripen to creamy white. At full maturity the white stage can show a faint yellow tint depending on growing conditions.

Heat descriptions consistently place the pepper in the hot category, but reported numbers vary. Seller listings give ranges such as 125,000–325,000 SHU, 130,000–350,000 SHU, and 150,000–300,000+ SHU. A value of 250,000 SHU works as a midpoint estimate inside all of these published ranges.

Most seed listings attribute the pepper to the United States, and at least one source states it was discovered in Pennsylvania, suggesting the cultivar originated as a local selection rather than an older regional landrace.

A practical issue noted in grower discussions is seed-trade confusion. Some growers report receiving different peppers labelled as White Devils Tongue, indicating that mislabelled seed occasionally circulates even though the general description of the cultivar is fairly consistent across listings.