Cut-leaved Ground-cherry
മൊട്ടാമ്പുളി
Physalis angulata L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 79 cm
- wide
- —
Solanaceae
Also called Cutleaf groundcherry, Lance-leaved Ground-cherry
Formerly Boberella angulata, Physalis bodinieri, Physalis capsicifolia, Physalis cuneata, and 14 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Trop. & Subtrop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 79 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Simplified Chinese
- 灯笼草, 灯笼果, 灯笼泡
- Chinese
- 酸浆, 小酸浆, 苦蘵
- Czech
- mochyně drobnoplodá
- Finnish
- kolkkalyhtykoiso
- Malayalam
- മൊട്ടാമ്പുളി
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Physalis angulata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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