husk tomato
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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 pestssubtypes:- 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 cherriessame as: ground cherry -
Small edible yellow to purple tomato-like fruit enclosed in a bladderlike husk (synset 107750531)
is a type of: solanaceous vegetable - any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersiconis a part of: jamberry, mexican husk tomato, physalis ixocarpa, tomatillo - annual of Mexico and southern United States having edible purplish viscid fruit resembling small tomatoessame as: mexican husk tomato, tomatillo
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