Food Plants International - Plant Fact Sheets Solanum macrocarpon - African Eggplant
Edible Portion: Leaves, Fruit, Flowers, Vegetable
An annual plant. It can keep groing for some years. The leaves are dark green and glossy. The leaf stalk is not well defined as the leaf blade runs down into the stalk. Leaves are generally not very hairy. The flowers are purple or sometimes white. The flowers are large. The fruit are are round and greenish white but become orange-yellow or brown when fully ripe. They are hard or firm with long calyces around the fruit.