Physalis angulata

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

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|image = Starr 050222-4124 Physalis angulata.jpg

|image_caption = Cutleaf groundcherry

|genus = Physalis

|species = angulata

|authority = L.

|synonyms_ref={{cite POWO |id=195334-2 |title=Physalis angulata L. |access-date=10 February 2023}}

|synonyms={{Collapsible list|

• Boberella angulata {{small|(L.) E.H.L.Krause}}
• Physalis abyssinica {{small|Nees}}
• Physalis angulata var. capsicifolia {{small|(Dunal) Griseb.}}
• Physalis angulata var. dubia {{small|Kuntze}}
• Physalis angulata var. lanceifolia {{small|(Nees) Waterf.}}
• Physalis angulata f. linkiana {{small|(Nees) Stehlé}}
• Physalis angulata var. linkiana {{small|(Nees) A.Gray}}
• Physalis angulata var. normalis {{small|Kuntze}}
• Physalis angulata var. pendula {{small|(Rydb.) Waterf.}}
• Physalis angulata f. ramosissima {{small|(Mill.) Stehlé}}
• Physalis angulata var. ramosissima {{small|(Mill.) O.E.Schulz}}
• Physalis angulata f. tenuis {{small|Hassl.}}
• Physalis angulata var. villosa {{small|Bonati}}
• Physalis arenaria {{small|Nees}}
• Physalis bodinieri {{small|H.Lév. & Vaniot}}
• Physalis capsicifolia {{small|Dunal}}
• Physalis ciliata {{small|Siebold & Zucc.}}
• Physalis cuneata {{small|Rusby}}
• Physalis dubia {{small|Link}}
• Physalis esquirolii {{small|H.Lév. & Vaniot}}
• Physalis fauriei {{small|H.Lév. & Vaniot}}
• Physalis glaberrima {{small|Colla}}
• Physalis hermannii {{small|Dunal}}
• Physalis ixocarpa {{small|Nees}}
• Physalis lanceifolia {{small|Nees}}
• Physalis linkiana {{small|Nees}}
• Physalis linkiana var. arenaria {{small|Dunal}}
• Physalis linkiana var. venosa {{small|Dunal}}
• Physalis margaranthoides {{small|Rusby}}
• Physalis micrantha {{small|Link}}
• Physalis minima {{small|L.}}
• Physalis parviflora {{small|R.Br.}}
• Physalis pendula {{small|Rydb.}}
• Physalis ramosissima {{small|Mill.}}
• Physalis repens {{small|Nakai}}
• Physalis surinamensis {{small|Miq.}}
• Saracha angulata {{small|M.Martens & Galeotti}}

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Physalis angulata is an erect herbaceous annual plant belonging to the nightshade family Solanaceae. Its leaves are dark green and roughly oval, often with tooth shapes around the edge. The flowers are five-sided and pale yellow; the yellow-orange fruits are borne inside a balloon-like calyx. The exact native range is uncertain.{{Cite web |title=Factsheet - Physalis angulata (Wild Gooseberry) |url=https://keys.lucidcentral.org/keys/v3/eafrinet/weeds/key/weeds/Media/Html/Physalis_angulata_(Wild_Gooseberry).htm |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=keys.lucidcentral.org}}{{Cite report |url=http://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.40711 |title=Physalis angulata (cutleaf groundcherry) |last=Travlos |first=Ilias |date=2022-01-07 |doi=10.1079/cabicompendium.40711 |language=en|doi-access=free }}{{Cite web |title=Physalis angulata |url=https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/physalis_angulata.htm |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=keyserver.lucidcentral.org}} The species may be naturally endemic to Australia{{Cite web |title=Factsheet - Physalis |url=http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/efsa/lucid/Solanaceae/Solanaceae%20species/key/Australian%20Solanaceae%20species/Media/Html/Physalis.htm |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=www.flora.sa.gov.au}} or the Americas{{Cite web |title=Physalis angulata L. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:195334-2 |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}} or the native range may encompass both the Americas and Australia.{{Cite web |title=NT Flora |url=http://eflora.nt.gov.au/factsheet?id=24630 |access-date=2024-01-31 |website=eflora.nt.gov.au}} It is now widely distributed and naturalized in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.

The plant produces edible fruit that can be eaten raw, cooked, jammed, etc. However, all other parts of the plant are poisonous.{{Cite web |title=Physalis angulata (cut-leaved ground-cherry): Go Botany |url=https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/physalis/angulata |access-date=2021-06-13 |website=gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org}} Members of the Toba-Pilagá ethnic group of Gran Chaco traditionally eat the ripe fruits raw.{{Cite journal |last=Arenas |first=Pastor |last2=Kamienkowski |first2=Nicolás Martín |date=December 2013 |title=Ethnobotany of the Genus Physalis L. (Solanaceae) in the South American Gran Chaco |url=https://bioone.org/journals/candollea/volume-68/issue-2/c2012v682a9/Ethnobotany-of-the-Genus-Physalis-L-Solanaceae-in-the-South/10.15553/c2012v682a9.full |journal=Candollea |volume=68 |issue=2 |pages=251–266 |doi=10.15553/c2012v682a9 |issn=0373-2967|hdl=11336/8358 |hdl-access=free }}

Unripe raw fruits, flowers, leaves, and stems of the plant contain solanine and solanidine alkaloids that may cause poisoning if ingested by humans, cattle or horses.{{cite web |title=Physalis |url=https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/physalis/ |publisher=North Carolina State University, Extension Gardener |access-date=23 February 2023 |date=2023}}{{cite web |title=Ground cherry, Chinese lantern |url=https://csuvth.colostate.edu/poisonous_plants/Plants/Details/93 |publisher=Guide to Poisonous Plants, Colorado State University |access-date=23 February 2023 |date=2022}}