Talk:Physalis

Physalis angulata
I'm looking for Physalis angulata L., which is mentioned in the Carolus Linnaeus article. I can't find any reference to its being removed from Physalis, but I'm grossly unfamiliar with botanical literature. Where is this species now? We need a redirect, because P. angulata even if obsolete is very widely used. &#8212;Tkinias 17:51, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * ITIS doesn't think it's moved... this article is missing most of the 80-odd species. Stan 16:25, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * I wasn't going to trust ITIS... I thought perhaps the other species ITIS shows might be somewhere else now. &#8212;Tkinias 19:10, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Heh - unless an article actually lists its own authorities, ITIS is almost always more accurate than what we have. There are two conflicting styles for genus articles, one to only list "interesting" species, the other to list all known, and often no annotation saying which was done. Stan 21:11, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Ah, I was approaching from the fish perspective; ITIS is often incomplete or obsolete in its species lists (FishBase being preferred), and the fish genera should always list all species. &#8212;Tkinias 21:25, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * I agree, all species is the right way to go, but not everybody agrees - or is up to building the 800-species lists required for many plant genera! :-) Stan 07:15, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Yrch. And I was kvetching to myself about the 100-odd species in Hyphessobrycon...  I'll stick to my pisces I think! :) &#8212;Tkinias 09:26, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)

strawberry groundcherry

 * 1) Physalis alkekengi L. -- Chinese lantern plant is as far as i know the only european physalis.

i think the strawberry tomato (or groundcherry) is P. pruinosa.(inserted link) m.20050516

a physalis is a tropica fruit called UCHUVA where is grown (most of them come from Colombia, as i saw in tesco n sainbury's)with a yellowish orange color not biger than a grape, very luquid, not too much flavor. ahve a bit of an earthy flavor, because comes from a bush which is in most of the cases in rural areas where animal are around. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tenemeaqui (talk • contribs) 06:32, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

toxicity
Various places on the web say that all parts of the plant, excepting the ripe fruits, are toxic, i.e. includes the husks (calyces) and unripe fruits. There's some doubt as to whether even the ripe fruits of some species are safe. Lavateraguy 22:54, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Are these species reproductively isolated?
Does anyone know whether or not these species would cross?


 * Physalis philadelphica (P. ixocarpa)
 * Physalis peruviana
 * Physalis alkekengi
 * Physalis pruinosa

I'm approaching them from an alternative foodcrop / food security angle. (Please leave a message on my talk page if possible. Just say hello if you're interested in the subject.) Thank you.Heavenlyblue (talk) 18:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

Physalis physalis utriculus La Martinniere
Physalis physalis utriculus La Martinniere is a dangerous jelly fish, called Portuguese Man-of-war. Hakluyt recorded in 1979 at first. It is distributed in the warm sea all over the world.--Tossh eng (talk) 12:37, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * It's Physalia, not Physalis, and it's a siphonophore, not a jellyfish. Etc. Lavateraguy (talk) 15:09, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Confirmed, thank you. The book I referred to had the mispelling. That was a reason why I searched in the Wikipedia gave "No article title matches" output.--Tossh eng (talk) 00:02, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Husk tomato
Where does husk tomato fit into this welter of different species and common names, is it P. peruviana? Is that the (only) variety in (Western) culinary use? The typology at http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Physalis seems to say it's something different (and also says that P. Peruviana has purple fruits, which doesn't seem right). Flapdragon (talk) 20:38, 27 September 2009 (UTC)


 * I think the tomatillo (P. ixocarpa) is sometimes considered to be part of the general category of husk tomatos. I don't know whether the (somewhat) commonly cultivated "ground cherry" is P. peruviana or P. pruinosa or either.  This is based on the seed catalog at ; I haven't researched other sources or attempted to verify their species names. Kingdon (talk) 11:24, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

needs to be merged with golden berry article
needs to be merged with golden berry article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.130.46.152 (talk) 17:37, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
 * This is an article about the genus; there are separate articles about the various species in the genus. --JBL (talk) 20:35, 13 October 2021 (UTC)

taxonomic updates to Physalis
I would like to gather some links to information on recent taxonomic updates to Physalis. It's an active area of research, but consensus has been emerging in several areas. I will add any other sources that seem useful for other editors.

'''(In Press) Physalis (Solanaceae). In Flora of North America Editorial Committee. Flora of North America north of Mexico, Vol. 14''' Sullivan, J.R. Oxford Univ. Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., and Oxford, U.K.

(2020) Karyotype asymmetry shapes diversity within the physaloids (Physalidinae, Physalideae, Solanaceae). Julieta Rodriguez, Rocio Deanna, Franco Chiarini. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2020/04/23/2020.04.21.053181.full.pdf Note: This paper incorporates sections that summarize recent taxonomic research into Physalis; that summary and the bibliography may be useful for Wikipedia editors.

(2020) Typifications and nomenclatural notes in Physalis (Solanaceae) from the United States Chelsea Pretz, Rocío Deanna https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tax.12159

(2016) Proposal to conserve the name Physalis (Solanaceae) with a conserved type Maggie Whitson https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/tax.602047

(2012) Calliphysalis (Solanacea): A New Genus From the Southeastern USA Maggie Whitson https://www.jstor.org/stable/23314732

(2008) Keys to the Flora of Florida 19:, Physalis (Solanaceae) Daniel B. Ward

(2005) Untangling Physalis (Solanaceae) from the Physaloids: A Two-Gene Phylogeny of the Physalinae Maggie Whitson and Paul S. Manos https://www.jstor.org/stable/25064051

MarkWKidd (talk) 08:21, 23 August 2022 (UTC)