"irvin savage" writes:
The plants tend to grow in dry, neglected areas and were common in WA in my
youth...they were essentially a "kids" fruit... like loquats although I can
remember quite good jams being made from them. The fruit is sweet and tart,
yellow/orange when ripe and about the size of a marble. The fruit is encased
in a "lantern" which dries out to a straw colour after which it falls to the

Very interesting to read your experience. My dad grew Cape gooseberries
one year. They bore well, but they were eaten as they ripened and he
never got enough to make jam. I do recall that some of the lantern cases
contained a grub when opened. I don't know the other sort of gooseberry,
apart from the Chinese gooseberry (aka Kiwi Fruit).
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John Savage (newsgroup email invalid; keep news replies in newsgroup)