Stone – I’m pretty sure you hit it with the first one – the walteri.

Stone – Thanks for the extra effort. I’ll study all your references and learn something.

Thanks so much for trying to pin this down! I really appreciate it. It wasn’t in any of my books and is a new plant for me. I love the cool seed/fruit pods that it is now producing. It is a unique plant.

I’ve run into blank walls trying to identify my native physalis… As can be seen on this thread…. http://allthingsplants.com/thread/view/16848/Physalis-angulata/ Neither of us were able to pin down exactly which plants we had…

Also for your consideration… Physalis mollis http://plants.usda.gov/java/largeImage?imageID=phmo9_001_ahp.jpg

Naming it physalis… Is the easy part. Finding the second name is more difficult. Possible match for physalis walteri http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=phwa4

Stone – are you sure? I’m not an expert, by any means, but the leaf seems a little different from the ground cherries I’ve seen, and (although very young) the fruit doesn’t seem to have the lantern-like husk. If you are, do you know the species?

ground cherry (physalis sp.) Not all Physalis species bear edible fruit….