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Japanese-lanterns
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Japanese-lanterns

Alkekengi

Alkekengi officinarum, the bladder cherry, Chinese lantern, Japanese-lantern, strawberry groundcherry, winter cherry, alchechengi berry, or Klabuster cherry is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae. It is a close relative of the new world Calliphysalis carpenteri (Carpenter's groundcherry) and a somewhat more distant relative to the members of the Physalis genus. This species is native to the regions covering Southern Europe to South Asia and Northeast Asia.

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Japanese-lantern

speciesAlkekengi officinarum

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Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Japanese-lanterns in Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants

Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants

Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.719

Japanese-lanterns in Latin Herbal with German Synonyms

Latin Herbal with German Synonyms

1484 · p.57

Japanese-lanterns in Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)

Herbarius latinus (with Dutch synonyms)

1486 · p.25

Japanese-lanterns in Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)

Herbarius latinus (with French synonyms)

1486 · p.29

Japanese-lanterns in Latin Herbal with German Synonyms

Latin Herbal with German Synonyms

1486 · p.28

Japanese-lanterns in Ortus sanitatis

Ortus sanitatis

1491 · p.24

Japanese-lanterns in Garden of Health

Garden of Health

Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.24

Japanese-lanterns in The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation

The Book of Health: The Art of Distillation

Brunschwig, Hieronymus · 1505 · p.161

Japanese-lanterns in The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs

The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs

1532 · p.37

Japanese-lanterns in Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants

Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants

Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.721

Japanese-lanterns in On the Names of Plants

On the Names of Plants

Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.374

Japanese-lanterns in Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides

Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides

Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1308

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 765587.