Eggplant varieties
Title | Info |
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Common name | Eggplant |
Scientific name | Solanum melongena |
Taxonomic group | Solanaceae |
Source | Dan L. Perlman |
Economic botany | Food plants |
Food plants | Vegetables |
Selection and adaptations | Selection; Variation |
Selection | Artificial Selection |
Date | 1998 |
Eggplant varieties. Native to India or perhaps southern China, eggplants have been cultivated to grow in a variety of shapes and colors. The plant earned its English name from small white-skinned varieties common several hundred years ago. Eggplants appear to have no seeds because they are picked when immature.