Chinese lantern fruit (© Olivier Parent/Alamy)

【March 5 2015】What we call the Chinese lantern, Japanese lantern, winter cherry, or bladder cherry, botanists call Physalis alkekengi. It’s a plant native to Asia and parts of southern Europe. The white blossoms eventually fruit, but the red berry is concealed for some time by a reddish-orange papery covering that eventually dries and skeletonizes, as seen here.Explore breathtaking Gallery from the HuluTrip homepage over the past 5 years..