| Scientific Name: | Solanum melongena |
| Common Name: | eggplant |
| Family Name: | Solanaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 9: (-7 to -1 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Greenhouse produce plant, Vine or climber |
| Mature Size: | 2 - 3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Urban agriculture |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Lobed, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Ovate, Pinnately lobed |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, Violet, Apr-May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Edible, White, Violet, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Plant erect, shrubby, annual in zone 7; leaves alternate, most blades 15-25cm long x 10-20cm wide, gray-green; flowers violet, drooping, late spring; fruit white-purple, 8-37cm. long, summer. | |