mistery tree to ID

[huertasurbanas]

Hi, this tropical mistery is from a friend that grows a lot of rare tropical fruit trees, but we really dont know what could it be... maybe an hybrid?

When it didnt had fruits, I tought of LULO, the leaves are very similar to lulo (solanum quitoense), but its elongated fruits now seem to be a tamarillo...




what do you think?

[huertasurbanas]

No guesses?

[ScottR]

I would guess some kind of solanaceae

[Grapebush]

Looks like some kind of aubergine/eggplant, but the leaves are somewhat different.

[So_Cal_Mike]

My guess would be some sort of wild eggplant, or eggplant hybridized with some wild solanaceae. But just an uneducated guess on my part.
I will be interested to learn what you've got there also when the experts chime in.

[nelesedulis]

Isso é Jiló

é uma delicia!

[huertasurbanas]

Isso é Jiló

é uma delicia!

very thanks!

Hpw would you eat /prepare it?

[So_Cal_Mike]

Isso é Jiló

é uma delicia!

Thanks
Some info - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Eggplant

[nelesedulis]

Here in Brazil, we eat green jilo, you peel and bake in a pan with garlic and oil and cooking for a few minutes, yesterday I ate Jiló at lunch.

It is a bit bitter, you can peel and soak in the water to take away some of the bitter ones, but we here like it bitter!

Isso é Jiló

é uma delicia!

very thanks!

Hpw would you eat /prepare it?

[huertasurbanas]

Thanks again: it will be fun to try it!

[huertasurbanas]

I tasted a ripe jilo, red colour, not green as they consume it at Brazil, I boiled it for 15 minutes. The taste was very good, comparable to a mix between sweet potato and potato, not too bitter, just fine. I liked it more than any eggplant.