Easter eggplant
Easter eggplant is a plant of the nightshade family, related to aubergine (=S.melongena). The stem and leafstalks are green, or very faintly tinged with purple, and bear a few white spines. Leaves are wavy at the edges. Flowers are lilac, it is recognized by its oblong fruit, also grown as an ornamental plant, for covering walls or trellises.
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| Species: | S. ovigerum
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Easter Eggplant Media
Eleven (11) long, thin purple eggplants near Vijayawada, India
Varieties of Solanum melongena from the Japanese Seikei Zusetsu agricultural encyclopedia
White eggplant compared to two chicken eggs
Illustration of an eggplant (upper picture) in a 1717 manuscript of a work by the thirteenth-century Persian Zakariya al-Qazwini.
Illustrations of an eggplant from a possibly fifteenth-century French manuscript of a work by Matthaeus Platearius. The word melonge, below the illustration, has a blue initial M-.
Three cultivars of eggplant, showing size, shape, and color differences
Segmented purple aubergines seem to be the new thing in Thailand. They, as yet, have no specific name and are called "makhuea muang" (purple aubergine), the same as the usual, unsegmented and slender purple aubergine.
Philippine ensaladang talong, a salad on grilled and skinned green eggplant
