Synonyms
Alkekengi officinarum Moench; Boberella alkekengi (L.) E. H. L. Krause; Physalis ciliata Siebold & Zucc.; Physalis kansuensis Pojark.
Local Names
Armenia: 
(harsnakhot); Azerbaijan: Adi yergiləsi; Georgia: 
– ont’k’opa; English: Gooseberry.
Botany and Ecology
Perennial, with creeping, slender, woody, rhizome with clusters of slender and soft adventitious roots. Stem tall and erect, simple or branched. Leaves opposite, or in lower part alternate. Sparse hairs on both surfaces, densely so along ribs. Erect flower stems. Fruit has soft, thin, hairs until it reaches maturity. The flower is bell-shaped with a broad rim and has triangular lanceolate teeth. Corolla about 2 cm across, whitish, with very short tube and broad limb, lobes short, broad tapering rather sharply in triangular bright orange. Fruit stalk slightly hairy. Seeds whitish or yellowish, kidney-shaped, and finely, widely veined. In open forests, along forest edges, in scrubs, along ravines, on coastal lowlands, and...
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Fayvush, G. et al. (2016). Physalis alkekengi L. Solanaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50009-6_81-1
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