As a rule, no. Hot peppers overall tend to have leaves proportional in size to the fruit -- the smaller the fruit, the smaller the leaves. But there are always exceptions.

You can, however, if brave, always taste a leaf -- if it burns, its a hot pepper.

deninimi-

I may have to try that!!! I have 2 pepper plants, out of many planted- don't know who made it - the hots or the sweets.....

ive heard that some pepper leaves are toxic.

I thought my jalepeno pepper leaves were alot smaller, but that was years ago and I really don't remember. The lady at the box store said they were the same size, but she's been wrong before when I asked her questions!