As the title says.
These came from a packet of seeds that claimed to be scotch bonnets, but I have a feeling they may be bishops crowns.
However, from what I've seen online, bishops crown should only ever have 1 fruit/flower per node, but as you can see in the third picture, at least one node has 2 fruits.
I have tasted one (unripe) pepper, and there was zero spice, but I'm hoping the heat will come in as they ripen. (If they ever do ripen – British summer has not been good to me this year!)
by Baby_Rhino
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Looks like Jamaican bell / Bishop crown to me ..
Edit: if so, they should get hot when ripe
Even before the peppers form you can tell from the flowers they are C.baccatum and not C.chinense, so wrong species for Scotch Bonnet.
You have Bishops Crown, Mad Hatter or something similar from the C.baccatum species.