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Chinese lantern
Physalis alkekengi
44.318, 15.4998
Field Notes
Description:
Easily identifiable by the larger, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resemble paper lanterns. It is an herbaceous perennial plant growing to 40–60 cm tall, with spirally arranged leaves 6–12 cm long and 4–9 cm broad. The flowers are white, with a five-lobed corolla 10–15 mm across, with an inflated basal calyx which matures into the papery orange fruit covering, 4–5 cm long and broad.
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