Eggplant can not be eaten raw.

Eggplants eaten raw not only taste bad, but also may be poisoned. Eggplant, Solanum, Solanaceae herb to subshrub plant. Branchlets more purple, hairs fall off when old; leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, apex obtuse, base asymmetric; flowers solitary, sparse racemes, corolla rotate, lobes of the inner face of the apex sparsely covered with stellate hairs. Fruit shape and size variable. Flowering April-August, fruiting May-October.

Eggplant like high temperatures, seed germination temperature of 25 degrees Celsius -30 degrees Celsius, seedling development temperature during the day for 25 degrees Celsius -30 degrees Celsius, 15 degrees Celsius -20 degrees Celsius at night, 15 degrees Celsius below the growth of slow, and caused by flower drop. Below 10 degrees Celsius metabolic disorder.

Eggplant formation before the need for less water, eggplant rapid growth after the need for more water, on the eggplant harvest before and after the maximum amount of water, to fully meet the water needs. Eggplant like water and fear of water, soil moisture and poor aeration, easy to cause composting, air humidity is prone to disease.

Botany will be divided into three varieties of eggplant

1, round eggplant

The plant is tall, the fruit is large, round, flat ball or ellipsoid spherical, skin color purple, black purple, red purple, or green white. Do not tolerate heat and humidity, more cultivated in northern China. Most of the varieties are medium- and late-maturing, and the main varieties are Beijing Big Red Robe, Six Leaf Eggplant, Nine Leaf Eggplant, Shandong Big Red Robe and Tianjin Ermin Eggplant.

2, long eggplant

Plant growth medium, the fruit is slender and rod-shaped, up to 30 centimeters long, skin color purple, green or light green. Resistant to heat and humidity, southern China is widely cultivated, most varieties of medium and early maturity. There are Nanjing purple line eggplant, Beijing line eggplant, Guangdong purple eggplant and Chengdu black eggplant and other varieties.

3, dwarf eggplant

Short plants, small fruit, egg or long ovate. More seeds, poor quality, mostly early varieties, a nest of monkeys in Jinan, Beijing small round eggplant.