| Scientific Name: | Physalis alkekengi |
| Common Name: | Chinese lantern |
| Family Name: | Solanaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial, Weed (horticultural) |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Irregular |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Fall interest, Medicinal plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Opposite, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, White, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Berry (true), Edible, (Accessory tissue), Yellow, Red, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves ovate, up to 8cm long, margins entire, wavy; flowers nodding, creamy-yellow, about 2.5cm wide; fruit lantern-like, deep orange accessory tissue from calyx, about 5cm long, each enclosing a red berry. | |