Cape gooseberry

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Cape gooseberry

A tropical South American plant (Physalis peruviana) having yellow flowers with purple centers and an inflated calyx enclosing an edible yellow berry used to make jam, sauces, and desserts.

cape gooseberry

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) another name for strawberry tomato

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cape gooseberry - annual of tropical South America having edible purple fruits

Physalis peruviana, purple ground cherry

genus Physalis, Physalis - ground cherries

ground cherry, husk tomato - any of numerous cosmopolitan annual or perennial herbs of the genus Physalis bearing edible fleshy berries enclosed in a bladderlike husk; some cultivated for their flowers

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