Physalis alkekengi

Definitions of Physalis alkekengi
  1. noun
    Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
    synonyms: Chinese lantern plant, bladder cherry, winter cherry
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    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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