Yep, sounds like a habanero.
I don’t think it was, because I know the ones I had were larger and elongaged with a very rounded tip, habaneros are kind of squat and rounder...
It was an experience, though. Once, when I went to the rehearsal dinner for my sister’s wedding at a chinese restaurant, she ordered some dish that had those little red peppers in it. Now, I love those and eat em like mad, but my sister had no idea.
She wasn’t paying attention, popped one in her mouth, and while I watched from across the table, her face turned beet red, beginning at her neck and rising up her face like a thermometer, just like what you see in the cartoons!
She jumped up from the table and ran in the bathroom and threw up, and the rest of the night she could barely speak. It was pretty amazing to watch...