Irish wildflowers
Photographs: Cork city, Co. Cork |
Cape-gooseberry Physalis peruviana Family: Solanaceae Perennial. Introduced garden escape Broadly bell-shaped, solitary flowers are creamy-yellow with dark blotches in throat. Calyx is 5-lobed, purplish-green and hairy. Calyx tube enlarges and becomes a straw-coloured husk much larger than fruit. Green berries, ripening yellow-orange. Many small yellow seeds. Leaves cordate, randomly toothed and pointed. Spreading ribbed branches. Hairy plant, usually to 100cm but can grow to 1.8m Very infrequently recorded in Ireland. Identification confirmed by Paul Green |
Cape-gooseberry, Physalis peruviana
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