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== Description ==
*Perennial herb, 0.5-2 m tall, with purplish, ribbed, spreading branches and creeping rootstock, densely pubescent. *Leaves subopposite, ovate, 5-15 cm × 4-10 cm, cordate at base, acuminate at apex, entire or shallowly toothed, petioles as long as blades. *Flowers solitary, pendent, axillary; pedicel 1 cm long, longer in fruit; calyx 5-toothed; corolla 2 cm in diameter, slightly 5-lobed, yellow with 5 large dark brown-purple spots within; anthers purple; stigma subcapitate. *Fruit a globose berry, 1-2 cm in diameter, orange-yellow, glabrous, enclosed in the densely pubescent, ovoid, inflated bladdery calyx (husk); pulp juicy. *Seeds numerous, yellowish, very small.
== Growth and development ==
== Literature ==
* Hockings, E.T. (Editor), 1961. The Queensland Agricultural and Pastoral Handbook. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Government Printer, Brisbane. pp. 347-350.
* Legge, A.P., 1974. Notes on the history, cultivation and uses of Physalis peruviana L. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society (UK) 99(7): 310-314.
* Morton, J.F., 1987. Fruits of warm climates. Creative Resource Systems, Winterville, N.C. pp. 430-434.
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