Plant Information

Common Name: BERRY - CAPE GOOSEBERRY, MINIATURE
Scientific Name: Physalis pruinosa
Alternative Names: Ground Cherry 'Aunt Molly'

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R85.00

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Description

• Annual
• More compact version of the Cape Gooseberry - fruit is a little smaller but similar in taste and appearance.
• Fruits more prolifically than Cape Gooseberry.
• Half-hardy annual with spreading branches and leaves that are heart-shaped, shallowly toothed and grayish green when young.
• Bears yellow flowers followed by roundish yellow berries enclosed in lantern-like light brown husks.
• Needs full to partial sun as well as lots of water throughout the growing year, except towards fruit ripening time.
• It will grow in most soil types and will do very well in poor soils.
• Plant 40cm apart.
• Ideal for patio containers.
• When ripe, the husks turn brown and the fruit drop off the plant - prop up the vegetation with a stake in order to be able to pick up the fruit off the ground.

Culinary Uses

• The fruit is sweet and slightly acid with a meaty consistency and can be eaten raw, used in salads, desserts, jellies, sauces, tarts, jams, dried or cooked.
• Fruits are excellent when dipped in chocolate.

Parts Used

• Fruit.
• Peel the outer husk away from the fruit and wash before using.
• Fruits can be stored in their husks for several weeks.

Medicinal Uses. It is said that

• Good source of Vitamin P, A, C, plant sterols and flavonoids.

For Animals. It is said that

• Ground cherries are good turtle food.

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