Large-flowered Tomatillo
சிறு தக்காளி
Physalis philadelphica Lam.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.1 m
- wide
- 1.1 m
Solanaceae
Also called Tomatillo, Domestic Tomatillo, Mexican groundcherry
Formerly Physalis atriplicifolia, Physalis cavaleriei, Physalis geniculata, Physalis laevigata, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to C. America, Cuba to HaitiKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 91 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.2 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension yellow; Wikipedia green, purple, white, yellow
Not known yet: coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Coqueret de Philadelphie, Tomatille
- root
- chapululu, PHYPHI, mīltomatl
- Spanish
- Tomate de cáscara
- Czech
- mochyně dužnoplodá
- Norwegian Bokmål
- tomatillo
- Finnish
- tomatillo
- German
- Philadelphia-Blasenkirsche
- Japanese
- キバナホオズキ
- Chinese (China)
- 毛酸浆, 姑娘果, 姑鸟儿
- Russian
- Физалис филадельфийский, Мексиканский томат
- Dutch
- Tomatillo
- Swedish
- tomatillo
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Physalis philadelphica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.