Physalis turbinata Medik.
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Solanaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Annual, glabrous, or minutely puberulent when young. Stems rather stout, acutely angled and divaricately branched; leaves broadly ovate, obtuse or cordate and slightly oblique at the base, thin and dark green, repand-dentate, short-acuminate; peduncles short, in fruit about 1.5 cm. long, calyx-lobes lanceolate, acuminate; corolla 8-10 mm. wide, yellow with a purplish eye; fruiting calyx 3-3.5 cm. long, long-attenuate, almost pyramidal, deeply retuse at the base.
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Distribution
Waste and cultivated grounds, Acklin's Island and Caicos Islands: Bermuda; southern United States ; West Indies and continental tropical America. Smooth Ground - cherry .
Acklins Bahamas South America| Turks and Caicos Islands South America| Bermuda South America| West Indies|