Tags: Cultivar (Cultivated Variety).
Gilo (Brazilian Portuguese: Jiló) is a green fruit related to the tomato and the eggplant; the plant which bears it is also called the Scarlet Eggplant. It was once treated as a distinct species Solanum gilo but it is now known to be a cultivar group of Solanum aethiopicum (the Ethiopian Eggplant or nakati).Gilo was brought to the Americas from West Africa during the slave trade.
