EPPO Global Database

Nicandra physalodes(NICPH)

Overview
Code created in: 2002-02-11

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: NICPH
  • Preferred name: Nicandra physalodes
  • Authority: (Linnaeus) Gärtner

Notes

Peru to Chile and Argentina. Cultivated as an ornamental. Introduced in western and central Europe, Russian Far East, Central Asia, Western Asia, Himalayas, India, Indochina (Myanmar), Malesia, China (including Taiwan), Japan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Zaïre, East Africa, southern Africa generally, Madagascar, USA, Mexico, Central America, South America (northwest, Brazil), New Guinea, Australia (except Northern), New Zealand

WSSA list of weeds in North America


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Atropa physaloides Linnaeus
Physalodes peruviana Kuntze

Common names
Name Language
apple of Peru English
Chinese lantern English
Blasengiftbeere German
Giftbeere German
fausse coquerette French
nicandra French
nicandre faux-alkekenge French
nicandre faux-coqueret French
alquequenje falso Spanish (AR)
belladonna de país Spanish (HN)
farolito Spanish (AR)
huevo de tortuga Spanish (HN)
jarrito Spanish
nicandra Italian
nicandra falso alchechengi Italian
giftbes Dutch
zegekruid Dutch
joa-de-capote Portuguese (BR)
ballongbloma Swedish
ô-sennari Japanese
オオセンナリ Japanese
никандра физалисовидная Russian
kantbæger Danish
giftbær Norwegian
perunkoiso Finnish
peruu nikandra Finnish
nikandra miechunkowa Polish
wzdętka miechunkowa Polish
szilkesark Hungarian
luvër kopshtaqe Albanian
nikandër Albanian
отровно биле Bulgarian
ябълка на Перу Bulgarian
jiǎ suān jiāng Chinese
假酸浆 Chinese
verugani pokrin Croatian
lilík mochyňovitý Czech
peruu nikandra Estonian
페루꽈리 Korean
pe ru kkwa ri Korean
pūslīšu nikandra Latvian
melsvažiedė nikandra Lithuanian
mere de Peru Romanian
nikandra machovkovitá Slovak
нікандра фізалісовидна Ukrainian