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Cape Gooseberry (Muraaki)
Cape Goosebeery or physalis peruviana L. comes from
solanaceae family. This soft-
wooded plant usually reaches 2 to 3 ft. It has
ribbed, often purplish, spreading branches, velvety, heart-shaped, pointed
leaves. The tree bears globular berries with smooth, glossy, orange-yellow
skin and juicy pulp containing numerous very small yellowish seeds. Each
berry is enclosed in a bladderlike husk which becomes papery on maturity.
When fully ripe, the fruit is sweet but with a pleasing grape-like tang. The
husk is bitter and inedible. In addition to being canned whole and preserved
as jam, the cape gooseberry is made into sauce, used in pies, puddings,
chutneys and ice cream, and eaten fresh in fruit salads and fruit cocktails.
In Colombia, the fruits are stewed with honey and eaten as dessert. You will
find a lot of this exotic berry tree in our gardens and plantation area.
Related Links:
> Exploring The Magical Island
> Fauna of Sun Island
< Exotic Flora of Sun Island
- Annona glabra ( Kalhuhuthu Meyvaa)
- Banana (Faiykeyo gas)
- Bilimbi (Bilamagu)
- Bougainvillea (Dhaahiliyyaamaa)
- Breadfruit (Bambukeyo)
- Cape Gooseberry (Muraaki)
- Coconut (Dhivehi Ruh)
- Curry Leaves (Hikandhi Faiy)
- Custard Apple (Dhivehi Atha)
- Flamboyant Tree (Reethigas)
- Frangipani (Gulchampa)
- Ginger Thomas (Bokarumaa)
- Guava (Feyru)
- Guettarda speciosa (Uni)
- Helianthus debilis ( Lanka Mirihi)
- Henna (Heena Fai)
- Hibiscus (Saima)
- Jamaica cherry (Jeymu)
- Jamaican Mountain Sage (Lantana Camara)
- Jasmine ( Huvandhu Maa)
- Lemon Grass
- Lime (Lumbo)
- Madagascan Periwinkle (Malikuruvaa)
- Mango (Anbu)
- Noni Fruit (Ahivah)
- Papaya (Falho)
- Passion Fruit (Jumhooreemevaa)
- Poinciana pulcherrima L. (Fathanguma)
- Queen of the night ( Husnuheena )
- Rampe
- Sapodilla (Sabudheli)
- Scaevola sericea ( Magoo)
- Scewpine (Maa/Boa Kashikeyo)
- Sea Hibiscus (Dhigga)
- Tamarind (Helenbeli)
- Taro (Olhu Ala)
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