Alkekengi officinarum
| Botanical Name: | Alkekengi officinarum |
| Common Name: | Japanese-lantern |
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| Botanical Name | Alkekengi officinarum |
| Common Names | Japanese-lantern |
| Humidity | Medium |
| Propagation Methods | division, seeds |
| Synonyms | Alkekengi officinarum, Boberella alkekengi, Megista maxima, Physalis alkekengi, Physalis alkekengi subsp. anthoxantha, Physalis alkekengi var. alkekengi, Physalis alkekengi var. anthoxantha, Physalis alkekengi var. orientalis, Physalis franchetii var. bunyardii, Physalis halicababum, Physalis hyemalis, Physalis sendtneri |
Alkekengi officinarum, the bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese-lantern, strawberry groundcherry, or winter cherry, is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is a close relative of the new world Calliphysalis carpenteri (Carpenter's groundcherry) and a somewhat more distant relative to the members of the Physalis genus. This species is native to the regions covering Southern Europe to South Asia and Northeast Asia.
