What is the meaning of winter cherry?

Old World perennial cultivated for its ornamental inflated papery orange-red calyx.
- synonyms: Chinese lantern plant, bladder cherry, Physalis alkekengi
Small South American shrub cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherry-sized fruit.
- synonyms: Jerusalem cherry, Madeira winter cherry, Solanum pseudocapsicum

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