Thursday, June 30, 2011

Baingun

a tropical Old World solanaceous plant, Solanum melongena, widely cultivated for its egg-shaped typically dark purple fruit of  nightshade  vaiety



the fruit of this plant, which is cooked and eaten as a vegetable ,that originated in eastern burma , introduced to the modern western world some one thousand five hundred years ago, english names are eggplant and aubergine, punjabi bataun, sanskrit vitanka, arabian baunjan, sindhi vangan

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