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Virginia Groundcherry is one of the edible North American species. Being a member of the nightshade family, unripe fruit can be poisonous. When ripe, the fruit should be an orangey-yellow color. Flavor, when fresh off the bush, is almost candy-like, but changes after a short time into something more akin to a cherry tomato. [3]
Physalis (/ ˈ f aɪ s ə l ɪ s /, / f ɪ-/, / f aɪ ˈ s eɪ l ɪ s /, /-ˈ s æ-/, from φυσαλλίς : phusallís 'bladder' [3]) is a genus of approximately 75 to 90 flowering plants in the nightshade family (), which are native to the Americas and Australasia.
Prunus virginiana, commonly called bitter-berry, [3] chokecherry, [3] Virginia bird cherry, [3] and western chokecherry [3] (also black chokecherry for P. virginiana var. demissa), [3] is a species of bird cherry (Prunus subgenus Padus) native to North America.
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The tomato-flavored berry was boiled and ground with onion, coriander, and chilis to make a dish considered to be a delicacy. The fruit was also dried and mixed into flour for bread . Today the Zuni use the closely related common tomatillo ( P. philadelphica ) in a sauce recipe derived from the traditional dishes that used wild species.
Physalis walteri, commonly known as Walter's groundcherry or dune groundcherry, is a species of flowering plant. [3] [4] Its native distribution is Alabama, Florida, Georgia and Virginia in the United States as well as Northeast Mexico. [5]
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