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By Bo Friberg
Published 1989
This rather unusual-looking fruit, known also as cape gooseberry, is surrounded by a loose, beige, ballooning, parchmentlike husk called a calyx. The seedy yellow berry inside is about the size of a cherry and has a sweet orange flavor, but with more acidity. There are two main varieties of physalis: the edible one discussed here (physalis pruinosa), also known as ground cherry and strawberry-tomato, and the ornamental variety (physalis franchetii), usually known as Chinese lanterns because of the bright orange-red lantern-shaped calyx that forms around the ripened berries. The ornamental physalis are often used in late-fall floral arrangements.
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