Enjoy eggplant and want a beautiful variety that also produces quite well? This is an ideal form. Plants can reach 2 feet easily, perhaps even quite larger in more humid regions with huge leathery leaves and purple star flowers whose midveins are lined with protective spines. Fruits can reach more than 8 inches long, though 4-6 is more average, with the classic oblong shape and a colorful mottling of grape purple and cream patterning the skin. Picked just as they start going from extermely firm to slightly soft, they should be great for cooking with. Packets contain approx. 20 seeds each.