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Chinese lantern plant

DEFINITIONS OF: Chinese lantern plant

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n Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx

Synonyms:
Physalis alkekengi, bladder cherry, winter cherry
Type of:
ground cherry, husk tomato
any of numerous cosmopolitan annual or perennial herbs of the genus Physalis bearing edible fleshy berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk; some cultivated for their flowers
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