Alkekengi officinarum Moench, Suppl. Meth.: 177 (1802) (syn: Boberella alkekengi (L.) E. H. L. Krause; Megista maxima Fourr.; Physalis alkekengi L.; Physalis alkekengi var. anthoxantha H. Léveillé);
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Temp. Eurasia: Albania, Assam, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Czechoslovakia, France, Greece, Hainan, Hungary, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Lebanon-Syria, Manchuria, Pakistan, Poland, Primorye, Qinghai, Romania, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, Yugoslavia; Introduced into: Belgium, Cape Verde, Corse, Germany, Great Britain, Illinois, Japan, Kentucky, Morocco, Netherlands, New York, Vermont, Vietnam, Wisconsin as per POWO;
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Albania, Austria, +Belgium, Bulgaria, Corsica, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Serbia & Kosovo, ?Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Poland, Romania, Crimea, C- & E-European Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, England (I), Netherlands (I), Northern Caucasus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia [Caucasus], China, Australia (I) (Victoria (I)), Taiwan, China (Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan), Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Turkey (E-Anatolia, Inner Anatolia, N-Anatolia, NE-Anatolia, S-Anatolia, SE-Anatolia, SSW-Anatolia, WN-Anatolia), European Turkey, Iran (EC-Iran, N-Iran, Iranian Aserbaijan, W-Iran), Cape Verde Isl. (Ilha de Sao Tiago), Pakistan (Jhelum), Vietnam (I), USA (I) (Connecticut (I), Delaware (I), Illinois (I), Kentucky (I), Massachusetts (I), Maine (I), Michigan (I), Minnesota (I), Missouri (I), Nebraska (I), New Jersey (I), New York (I), Ohio (I), Pennsylvania (I), Tennessee (I), Vermont (I), Wisconsin (I), West Virginia (I)), Canada (I) (Manitoba (I), New Brunswick (I), Ontario (I), Quebec (I)), Morocco (I) as per Catalogue of Life;
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Physalis peruviana : Cape gooseberry : Pahalgam: 141011 : AK-4:
Sharing a picture of Cape Gooseberry from Pahalgam taken on the 7th of Sept,11.
Kindly validate.


I hope P. alkengii, has orange to red fruitsP. peruviana has longer fruit with prominent wings