Chinese Paper Flower Plant. Not only will you win instant recognition as a gardener to be reckoned with but you will also enjoy a carefree shrub that brightens winter with months of fragrant blooms. Native to china paper bush edgeworthia chrysantha gets its name from its bark which is used in asia to make high quality paper.
Edgeworth 1812 81 and english amateur botanist employed by the east india company. Physalis alkekengi the bladder cherry 2 chinese lantern 3 japanese lantern 4 strawberry groundcherry 5 or winter cherry 3 is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family solanaceae. Chinese paper bush for fragrant winter flowers and spring planting in containers and gardens in portland vancouver lake oswego.
In fact it may be too easy to grow for some.
It is a distant relative of the new world physalis peruviana cape gooseberry. Edgeworthia paper plant edgeworthia produces fragrant butterfly attracting flowers in the winter and early spring. When the pods have changed to their orange to reddish orange color it s time to harvest them. Chinese lantern plant pods are often used in halloween crafts due to their orange color harvest themed decorations and dried flower arrangements for fall.
