Ground Cherry Plant. Ground cherry plants look like small, sprawling shrubs with bright green leaves that have toothed edges. Apply mulch and water well.

Learn how to eat ground cherries and get tips for growing them.

Both the plant and the fruit resemble tomatillos and each fruit berry develops in a papery husk called a calyx. Learn how to eat ground cherries and get tips for growing them. The strawberry ground cherry is also known as the chinese lantern plant. Ground cherries are also known as physalis, golden berries, inca berries, cape gooseberries, and poha berries. Ground cherry , (genus physalis ), also spelled groundcherry , genus of some 80 species of small herbaceous plants in the nightshade family ( solanaceae ), the majority of which are native to the new world. Planting ground cherries are easy and quite similar to the planting process of tomatoes in care and nutrients. Ground cherries produce hundreds of small yellow flowers per plant. You can extend your growing season by covering your plants before a frost. Plant in the ground once danger of frost has past and daytime temperatures consistently reach 65f. Ground cherry plants average around two feet tall, with an equal spread. Ground cherry plants look like small, sprawling shrubs with bright green leaves that have toothed edges.