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Winter Cherry

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit

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Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx

Classifications

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unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
bladder cherry
plural
Winter Cherries
possessive
Winter Cherry's
pluralpossessive
Winter Cherries'