Chinese lantern plant

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Chinese lantern plant - Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyxbladder cherry, Physalis alkekengi, winter cherryground 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