Physalis alkekengi

Perennial herb to 50 cm high, rhizomatous, sparsely pubescent with long, simple hairs. Leaves alternate, 1–2 per node, ovate, to 8 cm long, to 5 cm wide, apex acute, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margins entire, sometimes with a few weakly developed teeth or lobes; petiole 1–2.5 cm long, grooved above. Flowers on pedicels 1–1.5 cm long; calyx c. 1 cm long, lobes triangular, 2–3.5 mm long; corolla 5-angled, 13–17 mm long, white or pale yellow; anthers 4 mm long; style 8–9 mm long, stigma capitate. Fruiting calyx 10-angled, to 5 cm long, showy, orange-red; berry globose, c. 1.5 cm diam.; seeds disc-shaped, broadly reniform or ovate, c. 2 mm long, yellow. Flowers summer–autumn.