physalis?
Last post 27-08-2006 8:14 PM by anthemis. 2 replies.
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27/08/2006 06:16 PM
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A neighbour has just shown me some seed heads he has been given... some were easy to identify but one had not been given a name by the donor. It looks like a cape gooseberry with a crisp outer to a berry but apparently the flowers were blue and I can't find any reference to a blue physalis. Are there any other flowers with a similar type of seed head?
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27/08/2006 07:04 PM
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- miranda
- Oxfordshire
- 17 Nov 2004
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Hi Anthemis, it sounds like the shoo-fly plant, Nicandra physaloides. It's reputed to keep white fly away but I don't know if it does.
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27/08/2006 08:14 PM
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Thanks Miranda, that looks like the one... so I wasn't too far out with Physalis! I think I'll wat till tomorrow before | pass on the name.
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