Physalis francheei is also known as foreign girl, red girl, hanging golden lantern, Goli, lantern grass, roselle, etc. Its scientific name is (physalis francheei mast var bunyardii Mak)

Physalis physalis is a perennial herbaceous plant belonging to the Solanaceae family and has ratoon roots that survive the winter.

Plants are 30 to 60 centimeters tall. Stems are divided into aerial stems and rhizomes. The above-ground stems are upright, with enlarged internodes, hairless or with fine soft hairs, and double branches. Rhizomes travel underground.

The leaves are alternate in the lower part and pseudo-opposite in the upper part, long oval, broadly oval or rhombus-ovate, apex acuminate, base wedge-shaped, oblique, leaf margin wavy, serrated. The petiole is long.

The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils, and the calyx is bell-shaped with 5 lobes. When the fruit is produced, the calyx is wide, persistent, and continuous, forming a bell-shaped sac, surrounding the fruit, with 10 longitudinal ribs, and is membranous. The corolla is white, radiating, with 5 stamens attached at the base of the corolla, and the anthers are split longitudinally. Ovary 2-loculed, multiple ovules.

The fruit is a berry, spherical, orange-red when ripe. Green when unripe, sour and bitter. Seeds kidney-shaped.

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