Re: [gardeners] Re: bitter eggplants
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:03:41 -0600
Reproductive parts of the eggplant plant are in the self-pollinating
flowers. If you say some of the fruits are "male," then won't you be
astonished to learn that the fruits contain seeds! That's a female
function, isn't it? Holy Toledo!!! The fruit IS an ovary. Then how can
an ovary be male? Margaret L
At 05:55 AM 7/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I read this about eggplants sometime in the past. It is the male eggplants
>that are bitter. Male eggplants can be distinguished by the bumpier
>surface- sort of rounded points- at the end opposite from the stem. Look
>for an eggplant that is one smooth curve at that end.
>
>This may not be true, and I may have the genders mixed up, but since reading
>this and always buying eggplants with rounded ends I've never had a bitter
>one.
>
>Diane
>Northampton MA
>
>Please respond to SojournerSheep@bigfoot.com or droeder@javanet.com