groundcherry, cutleaf
| COMMON NAME: | Groundcherry, cutleaf | |
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| SCIENTIFIC NAME: | Physalis angulata | |
| FAMILY: | Solanaceae | |
| LIFECYCLE: | Annual | |
| FEATURES: | Fruit a green berry enclosed in a calyx giving it a lantern type appearance. Leaves are solitary, loosely dentate, ovate, alternate. Plant glabrous throughout with a general clammy appearance. Flowers yellow in color with purple throat with five fused petals, five stamens, surrounding a single pistil. |
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| DESCRIPTION: | Characteristic “lantern” pod enclosing a green fruit. Berry similar to tomato (same Solanaceae family). Other characteristics similar to tomato include, a clammy appearance, single alternate leaves, and five fused petal flowers. |
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