Lantern Cherry

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The official name of this plant is Lantern Cherry. However, a literal translation can be found in its infobox. The official name is to be used on all pages that refer to this plant.

Not to be confused with Grass Lantern from Plants vs. Zombies: All Stars.

Lantern Cherry (灯笼草; pinyin: dēnglóng cǎo) is the sixth plant obtained in the Sky City in Chinese version of Plants vs. Zombies 2. It is the flying equivalent of Plantern, but unlike Plantern, its light will become weaker over time, then disappear. It can't be eaten nor destroyed. However, this plant does not affect the fog in Dark Ages. It is an environment modifier.

Origins

It is based on a groundcherry, more specifically Physalis alkekengi, commonly known as Chinese lantern or strawberry groundcherry.

Almanac entry

灯笼草 Lantern Cherry	TOUGHNESS Typical RECHARGE Fast
	灯笼草能发现隐形状态下的僵尸 特点：持续一段时间且不能被攻击 植物特征：红色植物、飞行植物 灯笼草很快就与火炬树桩和火龙草成了形影不离的好朋友，他们自称为“火焰三剑客”。不过夏威夷风情酒廊似乎不太敢招待他们三个，老板可不愿意再看见烧焦的酒桌。

Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When fed with Plant Food, Lantern Cherry shows all invisible zombies on screen. However, it still doesn’t light up the fog.

Costumed

It makes all sun-producing plants on screen activate their Plant Food ability, as well as doing it’s own non-costumed Plant Food ability.

Strategies

It can make all zombies hidden by the Arbiter-X's force field visible and targetable by plants and cannot be destroyed. However, the Arbiter-X does not hide itself and there are no Area-of-effect aerial plants so there is usually no slots for this plant and the player is better off destroying Arbiter-Xs with raw power.

It can also be used in Dark Ages. It makes Bandit Zombie visible, when he drinks his potion. However, don't try to use it for lighting the fog, as this feature wasn't added to this plant.

The only thing that redeems this plant is it does activate other sun-producing plants' abilities using its costumed Plant Food ability, but there will be a scarce amount of Plant Food in Sky City levels, and the player may need a Power Lily, which decreases the number of usable slots.

Gallery

Lantern Cherry in the Sky City trailer

HD Lantern Cherry

Another HD Lantern Cherry

[[Imitater (PvZ2)|]] seed packet

HD Lantern Cherry using its ability

Lantern Cherry's sprites

Puzzle Piece

Costumed Puzzle Piece (v +1.8.0.)

Almanac entry

Plant Food

Disappearing

Dancing

Upgrade menu

Groundcherry on a Gold Tile

Lantern Cherry on the new Sky City map

Grayed-out Lantern Cherry

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Old

Puzzle Piece

Costume Puzzle Piece

Seed packet without sun cost

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Trivia

• On Lantern Cherry's old Puzzle Pieces, it appears to be yellow, instead of red like it appears everywhere else.
• When planting it in the Last Stand, it will stay without disappearing.
  • This will only work when the player waits as the time of Lantern Cherry's shining passes.
• Lantern Cherry has three different English names. This trait is shared with Ampthurium, Aspiragus, Board Beans, Cycloque, Saucer Squash, and Spinnapple.
  • Grass Lantern is the translation of its Chinese name.
  • Groundcherry is the English name given to it in the Sky City trailer.
  • Lantern Cherry is the official name provided by Colorful Wish, an elite player that works closely with PopCap Shanghai to get better contact with international players.

See also

• Plantern