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Aubergine 'Black Beauty'
Solanum melongena 'Black Beauty' | Also known as: Eggplant 'Black Beauty', Guinea Squash 'Black Beauty' | Rating: votes | Print / Pdf
To the professionals, it is Solanum melongena; to the rest of us it is either an Aubergine or Eggplant depending on the side of the Atlantic we reside on. The plant has large, mid-green, coarsely lobed leaves, with a spiny stem, and while the Aubergine is grown primarily for its fruit, it still boasts a delicate beauty when in bloom. Its flowers are small, with five-petalled blossoms usually purple in colour and with eye-catching bright yellow stamens. Some cultivars produce the fruit early in season, but it is highly useful as garden produce, and is best to grow under glass.
Rate it:
- 1 - 1.5
- 0.7
- White
- No, neutral please
- Green
- seed
- Climbing
- Irregular
- Acidic
- Neutral
- Z4-10
- H12-1
- -34 - 4
- 0 - 210
- well-drained
- sandy
- loams
- Full sun
- Sheltered
- Vegetables & herbs
- Vegetables
- Culinary use
- Kid Approved
- Fast growing
- Outdoor food
- Kitchen garden
- intermediate
- 1 to 2 years
Aubergine
To the professionals, it is Solanum melongena; to the rest of us it is either an Aubergine or Eggplant depending on the side of the Atlantic we reside on. The plant has large, mid-green, coarsely lobed leaves, with a spiny stem, and while the Aubergine is grown primarily for its fruit, it still boasts a delicate beauty when in bloom. Its flowers are small, with five-petalled blossoms usually purple in colour and with eye-catching bright yellow stamens. Some cultivars produce the fruit early in season, but it is highly useful as garden produce, and is best to grow under glass.