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  • COMMON NAME: Wild gooseberry
  • ARABIC: تيجيج
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Physalis minima L.
  • FAMILY: SOLANACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Terrace
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
https://identify.plantnet.org/the-plant-list/species/Physalis%20minima%20L./data Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

An erect, herbaceous annual, up to 40 cm high, pubescent. Leaves ovate, 2-5 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, acute, oblique at the base, margins entire or shallowly toothed or lobed. Petiole 2-5 cm long. Flowers solitary. Pedicels 8-12 mm long. Calyx 4-6 mm long at flowering time, campanulate and enlarged or inflated, accrescent, enclosing fruit. Corolla 5-lobed, 7-8 mm long, pale-yellow. Stamens on middle of the corolla tube; anthers oblong, yellow. Ovary, globose, glabrous on a disk, style 3 mm long, glabrous. Fruit a globose berry, about 8 mm in diameter, enclosed in ballon-like, ovoid, yellowish-green, calyx 1-2.5 cm long, ribbed, veined, papery. Seeds discoid or nearly reniform, about 3 mm in diameter. 

Flowering from May to November.
Waste places and plantations.
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