winter cherry

Noun

• small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit

• Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Jerusalem cherry , Madeira winter cherry , Solanum pseudocapsicum , Chinese lantern plant , bladder cherry , Physalis alkekengi