Purple Eggplant In Home Gardening. Royalty-Free Stock Photography

Purple Eggplant in Home Gardening. Eggplant or eggplant & x28;Solanum melongena& x29; is a fruit-producing plant that is used as a vegetable. Its origin is India and Sri Lanka. Eggplant is closely related to potatoes and leunca, and is somewhat distant from tomatoes. The way to plant eggplant is by sowing, after 4 true leaves grow then planted & x28;used as seeds first& x29;. Harvesting begins 70-80 days after sowing then every 5 days. In terms of botany, the fruit which is classified as a berry has many small and soft seeds. The seeds are edible but taste bitter because they contain nicotine, a type of alkaloid that is abundant in tobacco.