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this is growing at my backdoor ,wildly and I wanted to destroy all of it. amazing what you dont know , so this is the cape gooseberry they make jam of? and of the commercial cultivation , i have never seen it sold in shops in south Africa.

Is it also called 'cherry apple'? (Though there is a tiny variety of apple called 'cherry apple' which I may be confusing it with.) Ben Finn 23:18, 27 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Why does strawberry tomato redirect here? 132.205.44.134 23:17, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

In India it is found mainly in north India. They are called by a vairety of names including "Pitari", "Rasbhari", "Makowi", "Popati".

However I am not sure where these are grown. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.17.144.114 (talk) 12:32, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"It is also favored in New Zealand where it is said that "the housewife is sometimes embarrassed by the quantity of berries in the garden", and government agencies promote increased culinary use." - I have lived in New Zealand all my life and have never heard of that phrase, let alone it being promoted by the government, perhaps in the 1950s, but not nowadays. Also I have never seen Physalis in the various regions that I have lived in (Wairarapa, Waikato, Bay of Plenty) ever being sold commercially in a supermarket, or fruit shop, so I can't say much about it being favoured in New Zealand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.89.27.124 (talk) 06:08, 18 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The section "etymology" repeats 6 times. Is it supposed to do that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Petgoldfishesed (talk • contribs) 20:10, 17 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The name Cape Gooseberry is so named because of the cape covering the fruit and not because the fruit has been grown in the Cape, South Africa for a long time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.54.202.114 (talk) 12:58, 22 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I took out the Names section and moved all of the common names to the beginning of the page, although that is making it kind of cluttered. As it stood, "physalis" was listed as the only common name at the beginning. I believe this was giving this name undue weight; cape gooseberry and ground cherry are as far as I'm aware, much more commonly used names (and "physalis" as a common name seems to be at least as frequently used for P. alkekengi). Additionally, the listing of plants it is not related to (i.e., cherry, gooseberry, etc). makes far more sense if it follows a list of the common names that incorporate the names of the unrelated plants. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.104.39.2 (talk) 22:05, 3 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have much trouble with that, but I reinstated the capitalisation of Physalis. It is a generic name and as such should be capitalised unless there is explicit authoritative sanction for such usage. The casual use of the generic name as a ciommon name (rarely, as stated) hardly carries much persuasive force and is likely to encourage inappropriate non-capitalisation by innocent non-taxonomists, leading to TEOCAWKI. JonRichfield (talk) 09:41, 21 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This fruit also contains B-12; apparently unusual in a fruit and therefore one of its most interesting features and thus should be mentioned in this article and listed in the nutrient panel.

following excerpt from: http://wallstcheatsheet.com/life/food/5-new-superfruits-wowing-the-world-of-nutrition.html/?a=viewall

"Expect this berry to taste like a cross between a passion fruit and a cherry tomato, says Details. The fruit is native to Peru but has been adopted by many European cultures, writes Pichuberry, a company hoping to help the pichuberry become mainstream. The company is working toward turning the pichuberry into a leading ingredient in juices, protein bars, teas, and other products.

Benefits: Looking for a fruit that provides you with a high dose of vitamin D? Three-fourths of a cup of pichuberry will give you 39 percent of your daily dose. It will also provide antioxidants, withanolides (anticancer compounds), and a ton of B12, which keeps your nerve cells nice and healthy."

189.172.29.19 (talk) 19:42, 27 February 2014 (UTC) Cheryl Hugle[reply]

That Wall St Cheatsheet article is full of exaggeration and misinformation and does not qualify as WP:MEDRS. The nutrient information table displayed in the Article is correct and is from the standard source for nutrient data, the USDA. There is no vitamin B12 or vitamin D in this fruit. --Zefr (talk) 20:02, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Pichuberry" comes and goes here as an alternative name for this fruit. It may be a "marketing" name but so is "kiwifruit". How many people know other names for kiwifruit? Pichuberry is what they call it at Safeway, and Google pichuberry -> About 12,500 results. I first came to this article looking up "WTF is a pichuberry?" So in my opinion "pichuberry" is a notable alternative name for this fruit.

Cape gooseberry About 542,000 results
Inca berry About 15,900 results
Aztec berry About 16,000 results
golden berry About 147,000 results
giant ground cherry About 72,800 results
Peruvian groundcherry About 2,850 results
Peruvian cherry About 6,160 results
Pichuberry About 12,500 results
Physalis About 727,000 results Cloudswrest (talk) 22:16, 11 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know why information relating to its re-marketing in the US is regarded as "Spam". I included the company URL -- although the company name is mentioned in the article, web articles are liable to link-rot. I have no interest in the company, other than that this is the first time I've seen "Cape Gooseberries" marketed in the US. I added the labelling information to indicate that the (Safeway) version is produced in Columbia, not in the US. Also deleted as "spam". Alanf777 (talk) 18:14, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, I didn't even link to the company's website, but to an index of companies. In any case, I found another article referencing the origin, but I included the "Columbia" labelling information in the ref. I also noted from the package that its a ^TM name. If anyone knows how to make the superscript smaller, please edit it. Alanf777 (talk) 18:40, 6 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Iifar removed this image, which - to me - is superior to the new one inserted above the nutrition table. What was the point of making a change? Let's be reminded that Wikipedia is not a photo album for users to display their own photography, WP:NOTGALLERY. Zefr (talk) 21:57, 24 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Physalis peruviana, also known by various names including the cape gooseberry or the Peruvian groundcherry, is a species of plant in the nightshade family (Solanaceae) native to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Known to be cultivated in the Inca Empire, the plant has been grown in England since the late 18th century and the region around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa since at least the start of the 19th century. It is now cultivated or grows wild across the world in temperate and tropical regions. This photograph shows the P. peruviana fruit, which is a round, smooth berry 1.25 to 2 cm (1⁄2 to 3⁄4 in) wide. It is bright yellow to orange in color and sweet when ripe, with a characteristic, mildly tart grape- or tomato-like flavor. Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus Recently featured: Hair Like Mine Robert le diable Human genome Archive More featured pictures

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Various sites describe Physalis species as highly toxic in potentially all parts except the ripe fruit: [1] (does not distinguish species), [2] (warns about "all species of Physalis"), [3] ("lethal"), to name a few. It seems worth mentioning here. --Fru1tbat (talk) 17:26, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]