A day or two after I posted that I was checking them out and noticed the bigger one was starting to flower, haha.
We’ve eaten some of the the one on the left and they are good but tiny so far. Pretty wild how much it produces so quickly and at such a small size. The bigger one could be Physalis peruviana. I have started some of those seeds before but I was pretty sure I had started just the “Cossack’s Pineapple Groundcherry” in the pot these came out of. Several of each type came out of that pot though and I doubt I would have mixed so many of two different types in the one small pot. Who knows.
Interesting… your plant does look a lot like Physalis peruviana however the flowers look too much like Physalis girsea, I think you have Physalis grisea (Would be crazy if it was a hybrid somehow but I think it’s just Physalis grisea - both species look similar but the flowers are different). Amazing how it’s already producing fruits & flowers.
I think that’s what you see here. I just find it unusual that the flower markings have a line that extends all the way to the edges of the petal (I don’t think I’ve ever seen that on Physalis grisea but maybe I just haven’t seen enough varieties of Physalis grisea).
Also the little physalis plant is the one that is currently flowers? The leaves look so different from the young plant vs the flowering plant. I almost thought it was a wild Physalis longifolia volunteering. But looking back it does make sense.
They are probably both Physalis grisea. Most of the griseas I have (Sierra Leone Groundcherry from Tradewinds) have been very short and start producing at an inch or two tall. If Aunt Molly’s is also P. grisea (a bigger plant in my experience) it would make sense that some could end up as really small plants and others as larger. Especially if the seed was collected haphazardly and not from a stable source. Or an unstable variety.
If that’s the case than @Sharq was right! Both are Physalis grisea because of the yellow anthers that aren’t twisted after shedding pollen. Now this confirms that Physalis grisea flowers can also have lines extending all the way to the edge of the petals (Something I thought only a few species like Physalis peruviana does).
Here’s a few of my ground cherries Finally got around to taking good pictures, of course they’re angry and yellowing due to not having been planted but it’s JUST gonna be like 2 more days. I’m not at all sure what is what but I’ve collected a number of seeds which include goldie, geltower, peruviana… and some kind of red one and “poha”. Also these are kind of mixed up with my peppers.
Finally got around to taking good pictures, of course they’re angry and yellowing due to not having been planted but it’s JUST gonna be like 2 more days. I’m not at all sure what is what but I’ve collected a number of seeds which include goldie, geltower, peruviana… and some kind of red one and “poha”. Also these are kind of mixed up with my peppers.