winter cherry

n 1: Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated

papery orange-red calyx [syn: {Chinese lantern plant}, {bladder

cherry}, {Physalis alkekengi}]

2: small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for

its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow

cherry-sized fruit [syn: {Jerusalem cherry}, {Madeira

winter cherry}, {Solanum pseudocapsicum}]