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Species
Physalis peruviana L.
IUCN
NCBI
EOL Text
900-2200 m
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The ‘cape gooseberry’ is both cultivated and found as an escape up to c. 1830 m. The yellow berries are edible and can be used for making jams etc.
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"Weak annual erect herbs, to 60 cm high. Leaves alternate, to 7 x 6 cm, broadly ovate, obliquely cordate at base, entire or shortly lobed, 3-nerved from base; petiole to 3 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicels 1 cm long, slender; calyx campanulate, accrescent in fruit, membranous; corolla campanulate, yellowish with deep brown centre, 15 mm across, tube hairy inside; stamens 5, anthers vertically splitting; ovary with many ovules, style glabrous; stigma 2-toothed. Berry globose, 10 mm across, covered by the balloon like 2.5-3 cm across fruiting calyx; seeds many, compressed."
The fruit is eaten fresh and is used for jam making.
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Densely hairy perennial (and ? annual) to 1 m. Leaves: lamina ovate-cordate; apex ± acuminate; margin entire to coarsely dentate. Corolla yellow with brown markings, shallowly 5-lobed. Calyx in fruit 3-5 cm. Fruit 12-20 mm, ellipsoid, yellow, not filling the calyx.
Habit: Herb
Isotype for Physalis puberula Fernald
Catalog Number: US 382133
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Card file verified by examination of alleged type specimen
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): C. G. Pringle
Year Collected: 1900
Locality: Sacro Monte, Amecameca., Mexico, North America
- Isotype: Fernald, M. L. 1901. Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 36: 502.
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peruviana: Peruvian
Degraded forest areas and wastelands
"Notes: Moist Deciduous to Evergreen Forests, Naturalized, Native of Tropical America"