Name of fruit - for a lesson I'm preparing!

charley68

Physalis, delicious, I love them.

This is the correct name, I have them in a hamper twice a year from my son just delicious.

Could it may be pronounced as fizz are lid??

I thought physalis and cape gooseberries were different fruit! I have never eaten or been served it. I just know them from pictures in magazines and online, Always referred to as physalis.

Where ignorance is bliss.

Cape gooseberry or physalis. We used to grow them in our garden, in my tropical childhood.

I like the word physalis and I'd serve them with their proper name.
I think that changing names causes a lot of confusion .
I've heard them described as ground and Cape gooseberries.
There are over 90 species and half come from Mexico - they are from the nightshade family.

Or as one teacher at our school said, syphilis 🤭

I did wonder to put this under the Gardening heading. Thank you everyone, all very interesting.

The translations I was coming up with were "ground cherries" or "love in a cage", but I'll use cape gooseberries or goldenberries as being correct names.

Physalis to be avoided.

Goodness, well done! I thought they'd be a tropical fruit.

We have grown them on our allotment. They do well in the South.

Physalis aka Goldenberries

Try are not related to gooseberries.

I love them but havnt seen them in any supermarket in recent months. Yes I guess the p word can be misleading if mentioned in a conversation ike I had with a friend when I told her I had them earlier in the year! My pronunciation came out wrongly! I now refer to them as cape gooseberries

Yes we have grown them.

We also grow tomatillo. Just for fun really but they make a nice salsa.

Physalis!

Yes I know them as Cape Gooseberries too. I like them too, I lightly stew them with a dash of water and honey. With ice cream, yum.

Physalis, delicious, I love them.

Cape Gooseberries are a common name rather than the P word.