Physalis angulata explained

Physalis angulata is an erect herbaceous annual plant belonging to the nightshade family Solanaceae. 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 borne inside a balloon-like calyx. The exact native range is uncertain.^{[1] [2] [3]} The species may be naturally endemic to Australia^[4] or the Americas^[5] or the native range may encompass both the Americas and Australia.^{[6] [7]} It is now widely distributed and naturalized in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.

The plant produces edible fruit that can be eaten raw, cooked, jammed, etc. However, all other parts of the plant are poisonous.^[8] Members of the Toba-Pilagá ethnic group of Gran Chaco traditionally eat the ripe fruits raw.^[9] Unripe raw fruits, flowers, leaves, and stems of the plant contain solanine and solanidine alkaloids that may cause poisoning if ingested by humans, cattle or horses.^{[10] [11]}

Vernacular names

• English common names include: angular winter cherry, balloon cherry, cutleaf groundcherry,^[12] gooseberry, hogweed, wild tomato, camapu, and occasionally other common names for the genus Physalis.
• In Spanish it is known as bolsa mullaca^[13]
• In Malayalam it is known as njottanjodiyan and mottaampuli.
• In Indonesian it is known as ceplukan or ciplukan.
• In Sundanese, it is known as cecendet
• In Suriname it is known as batoto wiwiri.
• In Meru it is known as Nkabakabu.
• In Egyptian Arabic it is known as Hrankash.
• In Yoruba it is known as Koropo
• In Guarani it is known as Kamambu

External links

• Web site: Physalis angulata L. . Atlas of Living Australia .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Factsheet - Physalis angulata (Wild Gooseberry) . 2024-01-31 . keys.lucidcentral.org.
2. Physalis angulata (cutleaf groundcherry) . Travlos . Ilias . 2022-01-07 . 10.1079/cabicompendium.40711 . en. free .
3. Web site: Physalis angulata . 2024-01-31 . keyserver.lucidcentral.org.
4. Web site: Factsheet - Physalis . 2024-01-31 . www.flora.sa.gov.au.
5. Web site: Physalis angulata L. Plants of the World Online Kew Science . 2024-01-31 . Plants of the World Online . en.
6. Web site: NT Flora . 2024-01-31 . eflora.nt.gov.au.
7. http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/efsa/lucid/Solanaceae/Solanaceae%20species/key/Australian%20Solanaceae%20species/Media/Html/Physalis.htm
8. Web site: Physalis angulata (cut-leaved ground-cherry): Go Botany . 2021-06-13 . gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org.
9. Arenas . Pastor . Kamienkowski . Nicolás Martín . December 2013 . Ethnobotany of the Genus Physalis L. (Solanaceae) in the South American Gran Chaco . Candollea . 68 . 2 . 251–266 . 10.15553/c2012v682a9 . 0373-2967. 11336/8358 . free .
10. Web site: Physalis . North Carolina State University, Extension Gardener . 23 February 2023 . 2023.
11. Web site: Ground cherry, Chinese lantern . Guide to Poisonous Plants, Colorado State University . 23 February 2023 . 2022.
12. http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PHAN5&mapType=nativity Physalis angulata (USDA)
13. Rengifo-Salgado . E . Vargas-Arana . G . 2013 . Physalis angulata L.(Bolsa Mullaca): a review of its traditional uses, chemistry and pharmacology . Boletín Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Plantas Medicinales y Aromáticas . 12 . 5 . 431–445.