An eggplant, aubergine or even mad apple is either of ii metal money of nightshade, Solanum melongena and S. esculentum, bearing big drooping purple or even whiten fruit.

It orginated around India but has also been cultivated around China and Central Asian countries since prehistory. Eggplant appears to own been known to the American globe those days are gone than all about 1,500 years ago. A many Arabic & North African list for it, & a deficiency of ancient Greek and Roman list, suggest that it was carried into a Mediterranean area by the Arabs in the early Middle Ages. Melongenthe, a portion of the scientific title, was a 16th-century Arabic title for of these rather eggplant.

the raw fruit has a spongelike texture & somewhat disagreeable taste, however in preparation becomes caring and develops the rich, complex flavor. These are especially utile culinarily owing to its ability to sop up nifty numbers of cooking fats, making imaginable inordinately rich dishes.

a kind that closely resembles a white-livered egg within each size & shape is normally known in todays world when the Indian eggplant. A varieties cultivated inside Europe and North America today are of similar shape however each big & darker. The Chinese eggplant is shaped such as the cucumber. Each Indian & Chinese eggplants unremarkably have a color gradient, from white at a stem to brightly purple to deep purple, however albino varieties too survive.

Although aubergine is the (British) English title given to this fruit, these are typically invoked to describe more objects by having the dark plum-color. This title comes from either a French aubergine, from either Catalan albergínia, from Arabic al-bAdhinjAn, from either Persian بادنجان Bâdinjân, the eggplant.

A word melongena is from either a Sanskrit vatinganah, which hwhen produced a total of list for this plant within various languages: eggplant, badingan, melongena, melanzana, berenjena, albergínia, aubergine, red-jolly, & mad-apple (mistaking of Italian melanzana as mela insana).

Image:Aubergines.jpg|Purple eggplants Image:Solanum melongena, flower.jpg|Eggplant flower Image:Thai eggplant flowers-KayEss-Two.jpeg|The flowers of the Thai eggplant Image:Thai eggplant fruit-KayEss-Two.jpeg|The fruit of the Thai eggplant. A whiten residue on the leaves is park.