ground cherry

1. 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 (synset 112931045)
   is a type of: herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests
   subtypes:

   • downy ground cherry, physalis pubescens, strawberry tomato - decorative American annual having round fleshy yellow berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk
   • bladder cherry, chinese lantern plant, physalis alkekengi, winter cherry - Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
   • cape gooseberry, physalis peruviana, purple ground cherry - annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits
   • dwarf cape gooseberry, physalis pruinosa, strawberry tomato - stout hairy annual of eastern North America with sweet yellow fruits
   • jamberry, mexican husk tomato, physalis ixocarpa, tomatillo - annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoes
   • jamberry, miltomate, physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, tomatillo - Mexican annual naturalized in eastern North America having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
   • physalis viscosa, yellow henbane - found on sea beaches from Virginia to South America having greenish-yellow flowers and orange or yellow berries
   belongs to: genus physalis, physalis - ground cherries
   same as: husk tomato

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