Chinese eggplant

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Name Variations

 * Japanese eggplant

About Chinese eggplant
Wikipedia Article About Chinese eggplants on Wikipedia

Chinese eggplant are commonly shaped like a narrower, slightly pendulous cucumber. The name 'eggplant' dates to the 1700s, when the most common European cultivars of the fruit were white or yellow, and roughly the size and shape of a goose egg.