Milk eggplant five generations in the same house golden fruit

Alias: five generations in the same house, Golden Fruit, five sons birthday greetings

Families and genera: small evergreen shrubs of Solanaceae

Morphological features:

Milk eggplant fruit golden yellow, strange shape, flower and fruit summer and autumn hanging fruit period is long, especially after winter defoliation, because its fruit does not change color, do not shrink, chic and attractive.

Small erect branched shrub, usually cultivated annual, 0.5m tall, with sparse leaves and waxy yellow flat thorns all over the body. Summer and autumn is the flowering and fruiting stage, the buds often droop before flowering, slightly erect when in full bloom, 5 purple petals spread out like five stars, and the yellow conical anthers twinkle among them. Bees and butterflies are the main medium for milk eggplant pollination. When the flowers and fruits appear, the skin of the small milk eggplant is only dark green, and gradually becomes orange as it grows, like a small lantern hanging from the branches. The fruit is like an inverted pear, and the golden wax often makes it difficult to tell the true from the false. what is particularly strange is that there are nipple-like protuberances at the base of the fruit, or milky head, or fingers, or ox horns, and some people describe it as a family of five generations sitting together and talking.

Milk eggplant is named because its fruit shape is very similar to breasts, in addition, there are five generations of fruits, pistachios, golden fruits and other aliases, which are small shrubs of Solanaceae, which are often cultivated as annual plants. The plant is about 1 meter high, prickly and pubescent. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate, 10 to 15 cm long, margin with irregular short obtuse lobes. Flowers solitary or several clustered into axillary Cymes, Corolla 5-lobed, bluish purple. Berry conical, ca. 5 cm long, epidermis waxy, glossy, golden or orange, apex obtuse, base with 3-5 papillary processes. The fruit viewing period of milk eggplant is very long, and it can bear fruit from September to March of the following year, especially after defoliation in winter, the numerous golden fruits are dazzling and eye-catching, can be pruned and cut off to watch the fruit in bottles, or the fruit can be picked and placed on the table, in a warm atmosphere.

Country of origin:

Milk eggplant is native to the tropical regions of America.

Growth habits:

Like warm, humid and sunny environment, not cold-resistant. The requirement of soil is not strict, but it grows better in deep, loose and fertile soil. Generally sowing and propagating in spring, the thickness of the covered soil after sowing is about 2 times of the seed diameter. Often keep the soil moist, slightly shade after emergence, and then gradually strengthen the light, when the seedling height is about 15 cm, it can be planted in the pot or on the ground. After 5 to 7 days of shading, the newly planted plants should be kept outside in a sunny place, and there is no need for sunshade in the middle of summer. The growing period can be fully watered to keep the soil moist, but it is not suitable for stagnant water. During the fruit-setting period, it is necessary to reduce watering, so as not to cause flowers to fall off and reduce the fruit-setting rate because of the excessive growth of branches and leaves. Apply rotten cake fertilizer and water once a week, and increase the application of phosphorus and potassium fertilizer after flowering and fruit setting, so as to provide sufficient nutrition and make the fruit have a correct shape and color.

Purpose:

Eggplant has a peculiar fruit shape and a viewing period of half a year, and it is a kind of high-quality material for flower arrangement.

In addition to ornamental, milk eggplant fruit can also be used medicinally. It has the effect of anti-inflammation and analgesia, dispelling blood stasis and detumescence. Main treatment of heart and stomach pain, lymphoid tuberculosis, axillary sores and other diseases.