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The US pepper that was nearly lost The fish pepper has a striking appearance. Growing to a height of about 61cm (2ft), its leaves are a variegated silver and green. The spicy peppers start out as creamy white with striations before turning green and then red, though they never completely lose their stripes. They're a mutation of serrano or cayenne peppers, carrying a recessive gene for albinism, and until very recently, they were grown almost exclusively in the Chesapeake Bay area of the US' Mid-Atlantic coast.
The fish pepper (named for its common use in seafood dishes) is popular today, but it nearly disappeared altogether: that it still exists is thanks to William Woys Weaver, a Maryland author and ethnographer. In 1995, Weaver discovered a jar of seeds in the bottom of a freezer that belonged to his grandfather, H Ralph Weaver. Back in the 1940s, African American folk artist Horace Pippin gifted the fish pepper seeds to H Ralph Weaver after getting treated by him for arthritis using honeybee stings from a hive belonging to the family.
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