Don't eat me like an egg. I'm from a tree.

Can you imagine that one day the tree will be able to produce "eggs"? Flowers don't tell you, it's true! And this "egg" can be eaten raw!

Here, that's it!

This is the plant called "egg tree" ~ and its fruit, yellow and white, is really the same as an egg! In fact, the name of this plant is gold and silver eggplant, which belongs to the Solanaceae family. It is related to the purple eggplant you usually buy, but its fruit is oval. And there are yellow and white very much like eggs (which is why it is called gold and silver eggplant), so it is called "egg tree".

Golden and silver eggplant is an annual herb with a stem height of about 30cm and a single leaf alternate. Flowers solitary or clustered, Corolla purple, ca. 1.8cm in diameter. The small eggplant produced by gold and silver eggplant is oval (oval), and the skin is smooth and shiny really like an egg. The shape is similar to that of ordinary eggplant, it blossoms and bears fruit in four seasons, and fruits can be picked in autumn and winter. Leaves, flowers and fruits coexist for a long time, which has a very good ornamental effect.

Although the egg tree is mainly distributed in some parts of Europe and the United States, its ancestral home is China, and the Spaniards who invaded China brought it to Europe and the United States to make them settle abroad. Gold and silver eggplant is also called white eggplant, its fruit can be eaten raw, like eating fruit, much more tender than ordinary purple eggplant ~ if you think gold and silver eggplant looks good and want to eat it, you want to plant one at home. That flower can tell you some tips on planting:

The land planted is the basic condition for the growth of egg trees: the temperature of its growth should be maintained at about 25 to 30 degrees, so we can keep it warm through the greenhouse. Secondly, the soil structure of the planted land should be relatively complete, the soil quality is relatively loose, the soil layer is relatively deep, the soil water storage capacity is strong, the soil pH is moderate, and the land rich in organic matter is the most suitable for planting.

Since the temperature of the egg tree grows above 25 degrees, it is generally chosen to sow in March or April, so that the egg tree can take root and sprout more quickly. first of all, we soak the seeds of the egg tree for 12 hours, then fish out the seeds, put them in an environment with a temperature of 28 degrees to promote germination, and wait for most of the seeds to sprout white, then we can sow the seeds.

The growth of egg trees has relatively high requirements for water, usually it is good to water once a day, but it is generally necessary to water twice when the weather is hot in summer, and at least three times a day if the temperature is very high. There are two ways of watering, one is spraying, the other is watering; when the humidity in the growing environment is relatively low, we can use spraying, the rest of the time is watering, but the amount of water should also be reasonable, not excessive, excessive will cause the root of the egg tree to rot, causing the plant to wither.

We should maintain a principle in fertilization, that is, heavy application of base fertilizer and frequent application of thin fertilizer, so as to ensure the yield of egg trees. We need to fertilize at least three or four times during the whole growing period of the egg tree.

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