The time has arrived to reveal the vegetable behind the flower of our penultimate photo quiz from a few weeks ago. It was an eggplant, a Japanese Choryoku hybrid, to be exact. Here it is again, photographed flirting with a different bug, our old friend Agapostemon.
It was correctly identified as a member of the nightshade (or potato or Solanaceae) family that also includes Mandragora (mandrake), belladonna (deadly nightshade), Lycium barbarum (Wolfberry), Physalis philadelphica (Tomatillo) , Physalis peruviana (Cape gooseberry flower), Capsicum (paprika, chili pepper), Solanum (potato, tomato, eggplant), Nicotiana (tobacco), and Petunia. Just like any normal family, a healthy balance of pretty, functional and toxic…
However, nobody recognized it as an eggplant, so there is no official winner this time around. Ironically, the plant itself did not produce winning results either… Something ate all of its leaves, leaving it looking rather sad. . . . CONTINUE READING → Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Japanese Eggplant Flower
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