161-164 Red Winter Cherries, French Mercury, The smaller Spurge, Chickweed.
Classic texts: Elizabeth Blackwell, 1737 (Vol. 1), 1739 (Vol. 2).
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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.
Fran.: coqueret.
Sven.: judekörs, japansk lykta, japanskt körsbär, kinesisk lykta.
Suom.: lyhtykoiso, juutalaiskirsikka, lyhtykukka.
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.
Bot. syn.: Physalis franchetii Mast.
Classic texts: Elizabeth Blackwell, 1737 (Vol. 1), 1739 (Vol. 2).
Classic texts: John Hill 1812.
Classic texts: Sturtevant 1919.
Classic texts: Madaus 1938.
Classic texts: USDisp 1918.
Classic texts: King's 1898.
Classic texts: Boericke 1901.
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