Physalis arborescens
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Physalis arborescens is a plant type from the genus of jujubes ( Physalis ) in the family of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
description
Physalis arborescens is a 0.5 to 2 m high shrub with more or less tomentose hairs made of tree-like branched trichomes . The leaf blade is ovate or rhombic ovate, somewhat pointed and with entire to irregular margins with a few teeth or occasionally curved, more rarely protruding toothed. The leaf blade gradually tapers into a 1 to 4 cm long petiole , the leaf blade itself measures (6 to) 9 to 12 cm in length and (4 to) 6 to 8 cm in width. The underside of the leaves is densely covered with tree-like or star-shaped branched trichomes. The top is similarly hairy, but not as dense as the bottom.
The flowers are in axillary clusters of three to seven, but occasionally also individually. The flowers of a cluster ripen at different times, and often only a single fruit ripens from them. The flower stalk is 6 to 12 mm long, but extends to 10 to 15 mm on the fruit. The calyx is more or less herbaceous, elongated hemispherical or short elongated to almost cube-shaped, 5 to 7 mm long and split in the upper part into about 3 mm long lobes. The crown is 8 to 12 mm long and clearly spotted dark. The petals are fused to one another up to 3 to 5 mm long lobes. The anthers are colored yellow, about 4 mm long and 1.5 mm wide. They stand on filaments about 2 mm long .
The fruit is a 7 to 11 mm diameter berry , which is surrounded by a greatly enlarged calyx. This is then 2 to 3.5 cm long and 1.8 to 2.5 cm wide and slightly to dense with simple, two-forked or star-shaped bifurcated trichomes.
distribution
The species is common in Mexico in the states of Campeche and Yucatán .
swell
- UT Waterfall: Physalis in Mexico, Central America and the West Indies . In: Rhodora , Volume 69, Number 77, New England Botanical Club, Oxford 1967. pp. 82-120.