Ground Cherries (Physalis pruinosa), aka Cape Gooseberries (Physalis peruviana), are a great, easy to grow abundant fruit ...

Physalis is a versatile fruit that you can eat raw, cooked, or in the form of jams or jellies. It is a rich source of vitamin C, antioxidants, and other nutrients. Health Benefits ...

A new study demonstrates how plants of the nightshade family produce pharmaceutically valuable compounds and how this ...

Genetic analysis reveals bluebottles are actually four distinct species, overturning two centuries of scientific belief.

Taking the groundcherry or physalis, a tasty fruit that has never gained widespread popularity, they were able to quickly boost its size and productivity by editing its genes.

Some sources also call them Cape gooseberries, but from what I can tell, those are slightly different (Physalis peruviana). Well, whatever they are, I like them. Ground cherries are very versatile ...

The well-known Portuguese man o’ war — Physalia physalis — may look like a jellyfish, but it’s actually a siphonophore, or a ...

Imagine a small fruit that tastes like a cross between a tomato and a pineapple, wrapped in its own natural paper lantern. That's the groundcherry (Physalis grisea) -- a little-known relative of ...

The multihued Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis), a jellyfish look-alike, is known for its painful sting. A protein from Helicobacter pylori inhibits amyloid formation in both microbes and ...

Olaf Gradin / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0. The problem for beachcombers resides in P. physalis' tentacles, which range from 30 to 165 feet in length. According to NOAA, the tentacles contain stinging ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Physalis Francheti, Mast., Sp. Nov ” in SA Supplements Vol. 38 No. 986supp (November 1894), p. 15763 doi:10.1038 ...