Japanese name: ショクヨウホオズキ（食用酸漿） Scientific name:Physalis grisea
[Overview]
An annual found in fields and along roadsides.
The stems, petioles and flower stalks are densely covered with spreading hairs and glandular hairs.
The stem is angular, branches well and spreads sideways.
The leaves are simple and alternate, ovate, 2.5–6 cm long and 1.5–4 cm wide, with an asymmetrical base.
The leaf margins are entire or toothed.
The leaves have petioles.
The flowers are borne singly in the leaf axils and are cup-shaped, 1 cm across.
The flower color is cream, with 5 purplish brown spots at the base.
The fruit is a spherical berry 1.2 cm across that ripens yellow and is enclosed by the enlarged, bladder-like calyx.
The calyx is yellowish brown with 5 ridges.
[History]
It has become naturalized in warm regions.
[Uses]
The whole plant is used medicinally.
The fruit is edible.
