Chinese lantern in "bokeh bubbles"
This fruit specimen of the Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi, Solanaceae) was shot in my "studio" set up on my kitchen counter for shallow depth of field to produce soft bokeh bubbles. The fruit was from a plant growing on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Although the small, orange berry inside the papery husk is edible, it is not esteemed as food compared to most of the American derived Physalis species including the tamatillo (Physalis philadelphica) and the many smaller ground cherries such as the Cape gooseberry, the aguaymanto (Spanish), and camapu (Portuguese). P. alkekengi is the only Physalis species native to Asia where it is naturally distributed from Central Asia to Japan. It has been introduced in the Americas where it is naturalized in the eastern U.S. and Canada.
NOTE: The geotag is for the location of where the fruit was collected.
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Chinese lantern in "bokeh bubbles"
This fruit specimen of the Chinese lantern (Physalis alkekengi, Solanaceae) was shot in my "studio" set up on my kitchen counter for shallow depth of field to produce soft bokeh bubbles. The fruit was from a plant growing on the campus of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Although the small, orange berry inside the papery husk is edible, it is not esteemed as food compared to most of the American derived Physalis species including the tamatillo (Physalis philadelphica) and the many smaller ground cherries such as the Cape gooseberry, the aguaymanto (Spanish), and camapu (Portuguese). P. alkekengi is the only Physalis species native to Asia where it is naturally distributed from Central Asia to Japan. It has been introduced in the Americas where it is naturalized in the eastern U.S. and Canada.
NOTE: The geotag is for the location of where the fruit was collected.
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