Jewels in the grass
This photo is from the same woods as the yesterday's shot.Anybody know what kind of plant is this?
Have a great Friday.
posted by Jazzy @ Friday, July 27, 2007
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Friday, July 27, 2007
This photo is from the same woods as the yesterday's shot.Anybody know what kind of plant is this?
Have a great Friday.
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8 Comments:
It looks like some kind of gourd.
I have seen something like these in flower arrangements. When they dry they are very light and look like little hanging lanterns.
Perhaps they are gourds like Abraham thinks too. Great shot either way.
It looks like a chinese lantern plant to me (more closely related to tomatillos or tomatoes than gourds, I think). Here is a wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalis
and another:
http://www.botany.com/physalis.html
and one last one:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nccpg.com/gloucestershire/physalis.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nccpg.com/gloucestershire/plantweek29.html&h=477&w=350&sz=38&tbnid=Fi-WMvPeR543XM:&tbnh=129&tbnw=95&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dphysalis%26um%3D1&start=3&ei=M--vRv6kBIi2gQO9nZSuCA&sig2=BP79qwY77PxbozvaGzyGeg&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=3
A friend of mine grows these in her garden near Seattle. She calls them Chinese lantern plants. She gave some dried ones to me for an arrangement I was making. They make a great addition to a fall decoration.
Nice photo. In the US, that plant is called Chinese Lantern or Ground Cherry.
The plant is quite common but cannot be eaten. Many people dry it and bring it into their homes as a winter decoration.
I'll go along with everybody, except that the fruits are sold here to be eaten. They're known as Chinese gooseberries I guess because they taste a little like gooseberry with a bit of a tang. The fruit's inside the lantern - it looks like an orange cherry when it's ripe. A bit of an acquired taste.
My English dictionary says it is either a ground cherry or a strawberry tomato. We call it in Korean, "꽈리(Kwari)."
i used to eat this when i was a kid..it has sweet taste and texture similar to passion fruits..and its very light when its dried..
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