Representative flower and fruit morphology of eggplant and its wild relatives. Table 2. Key vegetative differences of eggplants and wild relatives. Key to the Species of the Eggplant Clade 1a. Fruit with soft pericarp, in a variety of shapes and colours, edible, the mesocarp spongy, usually white or cream, sometimes green or green-tinged; fasciation common, number of flower parts up to 8 and the ovary inflated. Fruit spherical, yellow sometimes pale orange-yellow when mature, with comparatively hard pericarp, not palatable, the mesocarp usually green and jelly-like, if slightly spongy less than 1 cm thick; wild plants, flowers 5-merous.
Southern Africa and around the Mediterranean. Leaves and young stems glabrescent to moderately pubescent. Leaves and young stems usually densely pubescent hairs overlapping. Calyx lobes on long-styled flowers 7—10 mm long, ovate and leafy, obtuse at the tips. South Africa. Calyx lobes on long styled flowers 4—7 mm long, deltate or long-triangular with acuminate tips. Calyx lobes on long-styled flowers 4—7 mm long, deltate, ca. Continental Africa north of the Equator.
Cape Verde Islands. Stems prickly but see Table 3. Prickles straight or slightly curved, usually with broad bases. Corolla on long-styled flowers 1. Anthers ca. Asia from the Philippines to southeast Asia, India and Madagascar. Table 3. Character suite for distinguishing ambiguous specimens of S.
Synopsis Solanum aureitomentosum Bitter, Repert. Regni Veg. Solanum chrysotrichum C. Wright, Kew Bull. Solanum campylacanthum A. Rich, Tent. Solanum bojeri Dunal, Prodr. Solanum delagoense Dunal, Prodr. Figure 2.
A sample of form and leaf variation in Solanum campylacanthum A. Figure 3. Fruit shape and colour variation in cultivars of the common eggplant, Solanum melongena.
Photograph taken by J. Conclusions We provide here names at the species level for eggplant relatives previously treated in an informal classification. Acknowledgments We thank the Global Crop Diversity Trust for hosting SK and JP at the eggplant expert working group discussion meeting in Avignon, France in July ; many herbaria see acronyms in Solanaceae Source for loan of specimens for our taxonomic studies on African spiny solanums; we especially thank Marie-Christine Daunay INRA-GAFL for her generosity in sharing her knowledge of eggplants and their biology with us and for many conversations about the future of eggplant breeding; David Spooner and Rachel Meyer provide thoughtful and very useful reviews; we are grateful to the late Richard Lester for his inspiration and assistance in our initial studies of African solanums, without his pioneering work understanding of these complicated plants would be a distant goal.
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Why Does Eggplant Have Seeds? Why Does Eggplant Have Nicotine? Habitat terrestrial New England state Massachusetts Specific habitat man-made or disturbed habitats. Branched tendrils NA Hair between stem nodes the stem has hairs between the nodes Hooked hairs on stem between nodes no Leaves on stem there is at least one full leaf above the base of the flowering stem Plant height 30— cm Tendril origin NA Tendrils the plant does not have tendrils.
Massachusetts not applicable S-rank: SNA. Native to North America? Sometimes Confused With Solanum carolinense : inflorescence with mostly 3—6 flowers, corolla 20—30 mm wide, light purple to white, and berry 1—1.
Family Solanaceae. Genus Solanum. E eggplant. It is then important to dry the seeds within two days at most. For smaller quantities, use coffee filters, as they are very absorbent and the seeds do not stick to them. Place at most a small teaspoon of seeds in each filter. Hang the sachets on a clothes rack in a dry, airy and shaded place.
Write the name of the variety, the species and the year of production on a label and place it inside the packet. Writing on the outside may rub off. A few days in the freezer will kill any parasite larvae. The germination capacity of aubergine seeds is 3 to 6 years. To lengthen it, keep the seeds in a freezer. We use cookies to store your preferences of navigation on the website. We don't use any trackers or advertisers. Copy link.
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