English Name: French Cherry

Alias: lantern, lantern fruit, hanging golden lantern, red lantern, brocade lantern, sour paste.

Picking: when the fruit is ripe in autumn and the persistent calyx is red or orange-red, it is harvested and dried.

Taste: persistent calyx is slightly lantern-shaped. The surface of orange-red or orange-yellow calyx is bitter, and the fruit is sweet and slightly sour. Cold in nature and bitter in taste. Plant morphology; Panicum miliaceum. Location: Distributed in most parts of China.

Chemical composition: Berry contains Physalis A and Physalis B; Seeds contain sitosterol, blunt leaf alcohol, cycloalkanol, cycloalkanol, etc.

Indications: clearing away heat and toxic materials. Note: The unknown roadside flowers have a strong red coat, which is cheap and can clear away heat and fire. Miss Huang is also known as Physalis pubescens.

Domain: Eukaryote.

Boundary: plants

Phylum: Angiosperm phylum

Class: monocotyledons

Objective: Liliales.

Family: Solanaceae.

Genus: Physalis.

Scientific name:

straw berry tomato

Herbs annual, about 50 cm tall. Stems procumbent or inclined, much branched, villous or nearly smooth. Simple leaves alternate; Leaf blade is ovoid or oblong, 2 ~ 8 cm long and 1 ~ 5 cm wide, with short apex, unequal leaf base, whole or wavy, or irregularly notched, green at the top, nearly hairless, and more hairs at the bottom; Petiole length 1 ~ 4 cm, hairy. Flowers solitary in leaf axils; Pedicel ca. 5 mm; Calyx bell-shaped, green, membranous, 5-lobed, setose. Results The calyx looks like a lantern, with a diameter of about 1.5 cm. It surrounds the fruit and has five prominent edges. Corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed, yellow-green, about 8 mm long, with patches near the base of crown tube; Stamens 5, inserted at the base of corolla tube, anthers oblong; Pistil 1, ovary round, 2-loculed, ovules numerous, style linear, stigma capitate, inconspicuously 2-lobed. Berries are round and yellow, with a diameter of about1cm; Seeds are numerous, oblate, green and white. Flowers bloom in June. The result period is July. It grows and distributes in sunny open space and wasteland below 500 meters above sea level. It is distributed all over China.