ISO Wild Texas Chile Tepin

When I was living in Austin until about 15 years ago, I had wild Chili Tepin plants growing randomly in my back yard. These were short dense plants with narrow leaves and the peppers were very small round berries around 5mm. Hot AF and tasty! A gift from nature!

I took some to Virginia when I moved up East and enjoyed them until my last plant died.

Since then I have tried several commercially available Tepin seeds and none of them are the same, usually much sparser, taller branching plants and the peppers are larger 7-9mm. Some varieties were round, some oblong. Also not as hot as I remembered and the taste was not the same as those damn wild yard chilis..

Anybody know what I am talking about and does anybody have a source for seeds? My wife loved that plant for its beautiful grpwth pattern and I sure loved munching on the peppers! Made some wicked red sauce with those little mammerjammers, the perfect condiment conveniently growing five feet from my smoker...

I expect that many varieties and phenotypes are lumped together under the general category of Chiltepin/Pequin/Tepin and what I am looking for might not be one of the more prominent members of the native pepper clan.

Amy information or insight is welcome. Hope to grow these again someday!