The green tomato is very important in Mexican, and to a lesser extent Guatemalan cooking... --Elizabeth Lambert Ortiz (1979) Home Search FoodTales Any comments Tomatillo (Physalis ixocarpa) This perennial is native to Mexico and was used by the Aztecs. Unlike other Physalis fruits (the Cape gooseberry and the ground cherry), the tomatillo completely fills the Chinese-lantern-looking husk that ...

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Tomatillo Description - The tomatillo (toe-ma-tea-o) is of Mexican origin and has been introduced into the United States. It now grows everywhere in the Western Hemisphere and is common in Texas gardens. The husk tomato plant produces an edible fruit enclosed in a thick husk. The husk is brown and the fruit yellowish when it is ripe. The plants will grow to a height of three to four feet.