Strange mini bell pepper

[Jimmy]

I thought I planted mini bell peppers, but these turned up.
About the size of a pea.

They tasted OK but the wife suggested (hoped) they might be poisonous!
Anyone know what they are?
Jimmy

[Zelenina]

They are not peppers at all. They look like black nightshade (Solanum nigrum), which in spite of its fearsome name and reputation is actually not poisonous (as I hope you've found out.)

The leaves are used as a vegetable in some parts of the world, and the ripe berries are supposed to make good jam or pies. it's a very common weed where I live, but is also sometimes sold as Garden Huckleberry. This doesn't mean you can safely eat the berries of other nightshade species, as some of them really are poisonous.

[veggiechicken]

Don't eat any more Jimmy
Looks like one of the nightshade family!

[Zelenina]

Here are a couple of articles about black nightshade. As they say, don't eat berries that are still partly green or taste bitter. And check that it is a bushy plant with white flowers that remind you of potato or tomato flowers, which it is closely related to. Deadly nightshade flowers look very different. And I think there's another vining kind of nightshade with red berries that shouldn't be eaten.

Black Nightshade « Forager's Harvest

Black Nightshade (Solanum nigrum) is Edible and Delicious | Root Simple

Of course if you're not sure you should probably leave it alone, but you say you've eaten some already. So I'm saying I don't think you need to worry about dropping dead from it. After all, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers and aubergines are also nightshades.

[veggiechicken]

And I think there's another vining kind of nightshade with red berries that shouldn't be eaten.

Woody nightshade - Solanum dulcamara, woody nightshade - THE POISON GARDEN website

[Zelenina]

Yes, Woody Nightshade. That's the one! Don't eat it!! Thanks VC.

[jackarmy]

Had something similar amongst a chilli plant last season and although it wasnt that big, think i pulled it out, the berrys were tasty indeed.
Thought it was a blackcurrent that got lost originally

[Jimmy]

Hmm wonder if it came in the packet of mini bell peppers or blew in somehow!
Destination ... compost bin.
Thanks Jimmy (still alive, sort of)

[Elfeda]

Jimmy how does it taste? like tiny tomatoes?? i tempted to taste them as looked like tiny tomato like wild fruits we used to eat during childhood ...

[Jimmy]

Well I thought they looked like berries.
So that what they tasted like.

I would not try them if I were you.
See https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/questio...9152028AAPnlxt
The effects of consuming deadly nightshade will include a rapid heartbeat, a dry mouth, slurred speech, hallucinations, convulsions and even death if enough is consumed and you are not treated quickly enough.

Sounds like a good night down the pub !