June 8, 2012

scelfleah:

Three ways of seeing the one.

How ethereal is the Chinese lantern? Physalis alkekengi covers its fruit in a papery, flame-like basal calyx that shows bright orange through winter and fades in spring, drying to a latticed cage of veins to reveal the “cherry” inside.

And so I thought, “Neat, why not?” —MN

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