Appearance
Its leaves are dark green and roughly oval, often with tooth shapes around the edge. The flowers are five-sided and pale yellow; the yellow-orange fruits are born inside a balloon-like calyx.It is related to, but not to be confused with "Physalis peruviana", the Cape gooseberry, a fruit native to, and cultivated in the western Andes, and exported worldwide.
Naming
English common names include: angular winter cherry, balloon cherry, cutleaf groundcherry, gooseberry, hogweed, wild tomato, camapu, and occasionally other common names for the genus "Physalis".⤷ In Malayalam it is known as njottanjodiyan and mottaampuli.
⤷ In Indonesian it is known as ceplukan or ciplukan.
⤷ In Suriname it is known as batoto wiwiri.
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