Photo: Physalis alkekengi 3.

Photo: Physalis alkekengi 3.

Plant in fruit: brown, red, orange and green husks, from the ground on up. Annala, Helsinki, Finland. Planted. 2004-10-10.


Physalis alkekengi L.
Engl.: strawberry groundcherry, winter cherry, alkekengi, Cape gooseberry, Chinese lantern plant, Chinese lanterns, common winter cherry, Japanese lantern, strawberry tomato.
Deu.: Judenkirsche, Wilde Blasenkirsche, Blasenkirsche, Gewöhnliche Judenkirsche, Lampionblume, Laternen-Judenkirsche.
Suom.: lyhtykoiso, juutalaiskirsikka, lyhtykukka.
Sven.: judekörs, japansk lykta, japanskt körsbär, kinesisk lykta.
Fran.: coqueret.
Bot. syn.: Physalis franchetii Mast..
Pre-Linnaean: Alkekengi officinarum, Halicacabum vulgare, Physalis alkekengi officinarum,, Physalis caule simplici annuo foliis integerrimis geminatis floribus solitarius, Solanum vesicarium, Solanum vesicarium vulgare repens fructu et vesica rubra