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Wild eggplant
Some of the earliest eggplants were cultivated in China. They have come in a wide array of shapes and colours, such as white, azure, purple, and yellow. Primitive versions used to have spines on the place where the plant’s stem connects to the flowers. Credits: https://www.geneticliteracyproject.org/2014/06/19/how-your-food-would-look-if-not-genetically-modified-over-millennia/