What is it?

[elleng]

[msdogi]

1. tomatillo

Salsa Verde, delicious

[mahina]

2. Seconded

[elleng]

3. No fruit visible!!!

[dweller]

4. Right above

The date of the pic … at least 2-3 or 7 😄


✌🏻

[elleng]

5. Lanterns with no fruit!

[ggma]

6. Googled Lantern plants; they look just like yours.

On my Kindle; can't post a picture.

gg

[elleng]

7. THANKS, will check!

NOW gotta keep looking, as I see no fruit: The lanterns are sometimes used in floral decorations, usually with leaves removed. The fruits are edible and surprisingly, are higher in vitamin C than lemons. Care should be taken though, as all other parts of the plant are poisonous. The plant also has a long history of medicinal uses. How to Grow and Care for Chinese Lantern, https://www.thespruce.com/chinese-lantern-plants-2132369

[ratchiweenie]

8. Pretty sure it's a Chinese Lantern that will turn bright orange.

[2naSalit]

9. We used to call them...

Chinese lanterns, they turn bright orange and are very decorative. We used them in dried flower arrangements.

But, they are very invasive and you have to keep an eye on them or they'll be all over the neighborhood in a few years.

I don't know if they have any other value.

[elleng]

11. Thanks, will watch them changing color.

On my patio, where hair guy was doing my hair, so have to keep checking them, in big old container I used for roses.

[2naSalit]

12. Don't put them in water like flowers...

Use them dried. They will turn before you pick them, not sure what they do if you pick them early.

[msdogi]

13. leaf shape is tomatillo

Lantern plants have more of a heart shaped leaf, plants are very similar. Best identifier is flower color, lanterns are white, tomatillos are yellow. Fruit forms inside that husk.

[eppur_se_muova]

14. Looks like "ground cherries" ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalis_angulata