A colleague at work gave me some of these ground tomatoes to try - so I thought I'd dry some seeds and see if I can get some to grow next year. I think the 'ground' refers to ground as in soil ... not as in grind ... and they are sweet like a fruit - so they aren't like tomatillos in taste and I don't think they are gooseberries going by another name. They tasted quite good - a novelty item - something to put on the side of a plate as a garnish (it's not like you'd sit down and eat them like grapes because of the work required to take the paper lantern-like skin off them).
Aha - I googled them and came up with the following ... (instead of rambling off the top of my head ad nauseum)
Cape gooseberry = Chinese lantern = physalis = golden gooseberry = alkekengi = strawberry tomato = ground cherry = husk tomato = golden berry = golden husk = poha Notes: Like its relative the tomatillo, the Cape gooseberry is covered with a papery husk. The fruit inside looks a bit like a yellow cherry, and tastes like a sweet tomato. You can eat Cape gooseberries whole, minus the husk, or use them to make very tasty preserves. They're hard to find in the United States; your best bet is a specialty produce market in the spring. Substitutes: tomatillos OR gooseberries OR cherry tomatoes
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