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eggplant
Solanum melongena
Eggplant (Solanum melongena), or aubergine, is a species of nightshade, grown for its edible fruit. Eggplant is the common name in North America, Australia and New Zealand, but British English uses the French word aubergine. It is known in South Asia and South Africa as brinjal.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.1250
Book of Herbs
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1546 · p.707
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.565
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.966
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.695
History of Plants in Four Books
Valerius Cordus · 1561 · p.202
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.640
A New Herbal, or History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens (trans. Henry Lyte) · 1578 · p.464
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.476
Compendium of Materia Medica: Illustrated Volume Middle of Middle
李時珍 · 1596 · p.113
Illustrated Herbal Primer
Chen Jiamo (陳嘉謨) · 1628 · p.239
Illustrated Herbal Primer
Chen Jiamo (陳嘉謨) · 1628 · p.240
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 63190.