Physalis pruinosa L.

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NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HERBARIUM
Physalis pruinosa L., 1753
(=P. maxima Miller, 1768) Det. Mahinda Martinez, 1993
The New York Botanical Garden
CULTIVATED PLANTS of U.S.A.
Physalis maxima Mill.
Source: Seeds sent from Argentina by A.T.Hunziker under the name "Physalis neesiana Sendtn.
Planted: June 27, 1981
Much-branched herbs to 1 m. all; leaves and stems subviscid, pilose, the whole plant with unpleasant rank odor and light green in color, the vegetative parts lacking any purple coloration except on youngest parts; root system showing no signs of becoming perennial. Flowers open mostly in the morning, held with the corolla face held vertically; corolla rotate-campanulate, pale yellow, with 5 slightly darker yellow-green spots within where purple spots are in most species of Physalis, the upper two purple veins (not purple spots!) not very prominent, a third adjacent lobe somewhat less purple-veined, the lower two lobes with no or only very faint purple venation; filaments elongating at different times; anthers yellow, dehiscing only after the filaments have elongated. Fruiting calyx strongly 5-angled, the 5 intermediate veins scarcely forming angles', invaginate at the base; immature fruits ± ovoid, green, viscid.
ILLINOIS: Cook Co., Chicago, 4200 N. Hazel St.
Coll.: M. Nee 21992	Sept. 19, Ootr- 1981
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