Physalis philadelphica Lam.

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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CULTIVATED PLANTS
Source: Commonly sold in grocery and vegetable stores for use in a greenish relish, Ciudad Granja, outskirts of Guadalajara, Edo. Jalisco, Mexico.
January, 1979-
Planted: June 1+, 1979 Pressed: Sept. l6, 1979
Robust, sprawling, stems much-branched and to 2 m. or more long; nodes swollen; larger stems often with many warty outgrowths and these abundantly rooting where in contact with soil. Plant with faint odor of Datura; flowers odorless. Corolla lobes reflexed, yellow but fading slightly by late anthesis, the spots purple brown. Filaments and margin of anthers blue, the center of each anther yellow. Purple anthocyanins confined mostly to pedicels and lower half of calyx. pVvcYf mm.-HxOU-'A.
Grown in garden, 3 miles southeast of RICHLAND CENTER, Richland Co., Wisconsin, USA. (T 10 N; R 1 E; NE*cNE?s Sec. 35)
Coll.: M. Nee
No. 16779