Yellow Eggplants… usually purple and either the size of a ball or tiny ones in oval shapes, isn’t it? Here is something new that will make you look twice. The huge twisted yellow eggplant that looks quite like Albino Burmese Python is actually edible!

Eggplants… usually purple and either the size of a ball or tiny ones in oval shapes, isn’t it? Here is something new that will make you look twice. The huge twisted yellow eggplant that looks quite like Albino Burmese Python is actually edible!

This fascinating yellow huge eggplant, a look alike of the python, sits on a tree at Kesar Bagh road in Indore.

So, here is how Indore has this rare snake-like eggplant. Harish Mathurkar, a hair stylist, who runs his salon near RTO office on Kesar Bagh road is fascinated by eggplants.

With a wish to grow and enjoy his own eggplants in a special delicacy, he planted a sapling outside his salon about four years back. “Usually, it grows to four feet tall in about four years, but I was lucky, because the sapling became a 20-feet tall tree in four years,” Mathurkar said.

Further, it blossomed and bore fruit this year. “We left a few off so that we can get some seeds and plant them around us and some perhaps on outskirts to help make our city green,” Mathurkar said.

To his surprise, the eggplant changed colour and continued to grow. The eggplant became enormous and turned yellow, as it now stands.

//So, why did the eggplant turn yellow?

Much like people, plants can get too much sun. When this happens, they also get sunburnt. The only difference here is that it looks different from what occurs when a person soaks up a little too much sun.

You’ll know sunburn is the culprit when your eggplant’s leaves are no longer covering the fruit sufficiently.

Also, over-ripening causes the colour to change. Eggplant needs to be harvested within a particular time frame. Similar to other fruits and veggies, once it’s past its prime, it will start to degrade.