7 September 2008 Houzuki!
This here is called a hozuki in Japanese (Physalis angulata in English). This particular specimen was given me by a photographer I know. They’re mainly used for decoration, although with the leaves intact (example here) instead of disintegrated as in this one. It was basically the perfect excuse to break out the big heavy glass, which I’ve been itchin’ to do for a while.
The setup on my kitchen table
Leaf skeleton 
Here you can see the fruit inside (highly recommend you click to enlarge this one–the ZF100 captures the textures of the disintegrating leaf so beautiflly)
If I were sophisticated I’d combine these last two images into a rollover (don’t worry if you don’t know what that means), but I’m not, so I’ll have to wait until my friend with uber geek powers gets back from the States.
Houzuki top
Houzuki bottom
