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  Phil Voice November 2, 2008 at 6:17pm

  Hi Karen
  
  I am sorry, I did not notice your response on the 18th Oct.
  
  You are correct, the variety I have is Physalis alkekengi and you can eat the fruit too (although much smaller than yours). It has a bitter sweet tang to it.
  
  Thank you for your kind words about the network and I am sure we are all benefiting from it.
  
  Kind regards
  
  
  Phil
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  Karen Moorcroft October 18, 2008 at 9:02pm

  Hi Philip. I think your variety is Physalis alkekengi which I think is more of an ornamental variety - it's so pretty. Mine is the Physalis peruviana, an edible type which was first discovered in South Africa around the Cape of Good Hope - hence 'Cape Gooseberry' even though it 's part of the Solanum family (as opposed to Gooseberry). I think it's a wonderful fruit and contains more vitamin C than an orange apparently, as well as having anti-cancer properties. It's only used in the more salubrious London eateries here at the moment, but they're so delicious, I think we should ALL grow them in our greenhouses here in the UK.
  Congratulations on the successful Landscape Juice Network - it's great to find like-minded people all in one place with so many great ideas! Long may it continue..
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  Phil Voice October 18, 2008 at 6:18pm

  How spooky Karen.
  
  You posted this at about the same time as my wife Donna was eating one of these for deserts at Chez Alain in Issigeac last night.
  
  Slightly larger fruit than the Physalis I have growing here at Lean Blanc.