It does look like tomatillo but you usually need two plants for cross pollination
mmrocker13
Tomatillo? Of some variety? I mean without scale it’s sort of hard to tell but it looks like a regular tomatillo plant. You need a pair if you want fruit though. Otherwise you’ll just get empty husks
GlitterBonanza
I’m going to second ground cherries tomatillos will have bigger paper balloons and ground cherries are frequent volunteers that show up I have them show up all the time and always keep one because I love their little paper balloons
jsoleigh
Look more like ground cherries, very similar growth to tomatillo at first glance. Ground cherries stay very small though, like half-inch wide berries inside the husks, so if they dont get any larger than that while the husk starts drying out, you’ll know for sure.
I’m growing a ton of them this year, they’re very prolific!
Random_182f2565
Delicious yellow fruit when the green leaves turn brown?
Financial-Slip4255
Tomatillo. Make some salsa!
aleqqqs
Might be physalis / ground cherries. I hope they are! Those are good.
12ga_
Tomatillos, ground cherries, and Chinese lantern plants can all be confused for each other. Be very certain of the identification before consuming, as Chinese lantern plants are considered to be toxic.
Salaminator9000
This is the third or fourth post I’ve seen here where someone has tomatillos that they didn’t expect. Did some seeds get packaged wrong?
Mediocre-Oil-5322
Chinese lantern? The pods look hollow, and the leaves don’t quite look like my tomatillo.
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Looks like Apple of Peru.
Did it have blue flowers?
Looks like ground cherries to me
I’d say tomatillo.
It does look like tomatillo but you usually need two plants for cross pollination
Tomatillo? Of some variety? I mean without scale it’s sort of hard to tell but it looks like a regular tomatillo plant. You need a pair if you want fruit though. Otherwise you’ll just get empty husks
I’m going to second ground cherries tomatillos will have bigger paper balloons and ground cherries are frequent volunteers that show up I have them show up all the time and always keep one because I love their little paper balloons
Look more like ground cherries, very similar growth to tomatillo at first glance. Ground cherries stay very small though, like half-inch wide berries inside the husks, so if they dont get any larger than that while the husk starts drying out, you’ll know for sure.
I’m growing a ton of them this year, they’re very prolific!
Delicious yellow fruit when the green leaves turn brown?
Tomatillo. Make some salsa!
Might be physalis / ground cherries. I hope they are! Those are good.
Tomatillos, ground cherries, and Chinese lantern plants can all be confused for each other. Be very certain of the identification before consuming, as Chinese lantern plants are considered to be toxic.
This is the third or fourth post I’ve seen here where someone has tomatillos that they didn’t expect. Did some seeds get packaged wrong?
Chinese lantern? The pods look hollow, and the leaves don’t quite look like my tomatillo.
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