1. Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx
   - Chinese lantern plant, bladder cherry, Physalis alkekengi 
2. Small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit
   - Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum

Derived forms: winter cherries

Type of: ground cherry, husk tomato, nightshade

Encyclopedia: Winter cherry

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