Green Aubergine

[Lois]

Hi, I am new to this and hope someone can help. I live in Ibiza and have grown my first crop of Black Beauty Aubergines, very successfully! When I went to cut some I noticed a perfectly formed aubergine, but it is totally green. It is growing on the same plant and purple ones. Just wondered if anyone knows why and if it is edible. Thanks

[Cutecumber]

I tried Black Beauty last year - it produced some extremely odd fruit - mottled purple, green and white! They were kinda triangular in shape!!

So, from my experience, the fruit are variable.

I roasted ours and pulped them - the flesh tasted normal and wasn't bitter.

I believe black beauty are an open pollinated variety - perhaps the strange fruits are a throw-back?

[SueA]

I've never seen that myself but then I rarely manage to get more than 2 or 3 aubergines off one plant. There are one or two varieties of aubergine that are green though so it should be O.K. If you cut the end off & the flesh looks creamy white & ripe then it should be just as good as your purple ones.

[Lois]

Green Aubergine

Thanks for your replies, being new to growing my own, didn't know Black Beauty were open pollinated, so perhaps that's the answer. Did cut it open, looked OK inside so put it in a moussaka with black ones, couldn't taste the difference.