Japanese colorful cherry pepper plants are 50-80 cm high and 70 cm wide; Strong branching, with more than 50-80 lateral branches per plant, and generally 150-350 branches per plant. Fruit is spherical. Because of the different color change periods, the fruits on the same plant are divided into green, purple, yellow, bright red and other colors, and the flowers and fruits are the same plant, which is very beautiful. The fruit is small and round, like a cherry, called cherry spicy. Persistent calyx of fruit base is flat. The top of the fruit is oblate, with a fruit length of 2. 1 ~ 2.4 cm, a fruit diameter of 2.4 ~ 2.7 cm, a single fruit weight of 7.5 ~ 10 g, a pulp thickness of 0.2 ~ 0.4 cm, a large placenta and many seeds. Every 100g of fresh fruit contains 76.87mg of vitamin, reducing sugar 1.64g and dry matter13.8g..
When ripe, it is as bright red as cherry, and the fruit is not empty, with strong spicy taste and rich fragrance. The tender fruit is bright green, and it is delicious to make vegetables; Old fruit is the best raw material for processing dried Chili, spicy powder, Chili sauce, Chili oil, pickled pepper and other condiments, and its export is very popular. Its fruit can also be used as medicine, which has the functions of invigorating stomach and appetizing, and can also be used to treat chilblain, rheumatism, lumbago, arthropathy, alopecia and other diseases.
Japanese multicolored cherry pepper has strong regeneration ability, wide adaptability, heat resistance, waterlogging resistance and low temperature resistance; There is no choice of soil, so it is suitable for planting in various regions of China, and potted plants can be planted in gardens and balconies. Moreover, the management technology is simpler than ordinary peppers, and there are generally no pests. Multicolored cherry pepper has few seeds and high yield, with an average yield per mu 1500kg and an output value of 3,000-4,000 yuan.