Vicious Eggplants

Trapper J

Carnivore
I was out weeding the veggi garden and received an unexpected scrape on my wrist. Strange. Had a closer look. I have 2 types of eggplant, one cultivar new to me (Ping Tung Long). I was surprised to see thorn-like projections growing from the veins of the leaves. The longest was 1 cm. Apparently, some eggplants are thorny, who knew? Almost as scary looking as some CP's.

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Trapper J

Carnivore
Update: The Ping Tung Long eggplant is revealing more surprises. Here's a photo from this morning of a fruit just starting to develop (and one further along in the background). Thorns are appearing not only on the leaf veins, but also on the stems and fruit calyx. This is one mean plant! I'm curious to see if the mature fruit will have thorns too. Creepy!

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