winter cherry

Noun
  1. Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx (synset 112931635)
    is a 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
    same as: bladder cherry, chinese lantern plant, physalis alkekengi
  2. Small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit (synset 112917622)
    is a type of: nightshade - any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit
    same as: jerusalem cherry, madeira winter cherry, solanum pseudocapsicum

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