and yellow — like those shown here. Some of the earliest eggplants were cultivated in China. Primitive versions used to have spines on the place where the plant's stem connects to the flowers.

Despite what the eggplant emoji may suggest, European eggplants centuries ago did actually look like little white chicken ...

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Here are seven fruits and vegetables as they look today and a peek at what they looked like many years ago ... had tiny green or yellow fruit. It was used in cooking by the Aztecs, and later ...

A variety of fruits have long been used ... eggplant is a dark teardrop. The bulbous Tango eggplant is white on the shrub but turns butter yellow when plucked. There are eggplants that look like ...