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.

Groundcherry (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

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Upgrades

Plant Food effect

When fed with Plant Food, Groundcherry shows all invisible zombies on screen.

Costumed

It makes all sun-producing plants on screen activate their 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 Rogue 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

Groundcherry in the Sky City trailer

HD Groundcherry

Another HD Groundcherry

Imitater seed packet

HD Groundcherry using its ability

Groundcherry's sprites

Puzzle Piece

Costumed Puzzle Piece (v +1.8.0.)

Almanac entry

Plant Food

Disappearing

Dancing

Upgrade menu

Groundcherry on a Gold Tile

Groundcherry on the new Sky City map

Grayed-out Groundcherry

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Old

Puzzle Piece

Costume Puzzle Piece

Seed packet without sun cost

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Trivia

• It and Plantern are the only plants to be based on lanterns.
• For some reason, on its Puzzle Pieces, it appears to be yellow, instead of red like it appears everywhere else.
• Its Almanac entry references Torchwood and Snapdragon.
  • Its Almanac entry is similar to Torchwood's too, as they both mention the Tiki Lounge.
• The Chinese name of "Groundcherry," that is "灯笼草," should be a pun. As "灯笼" means "lantern" and "草" means "Grass." Also, "灯笼草" is another name for Plantern in Chinese.
• It is one of the three plants that have an ability to make other plants use their Plant Food effect, the others being Tile Turnip and Puff-shroom.
  • It is the only Chinese plant with this trait.
• When planting it in the Last Stand, it will stay without disappearing.
  • This will only work when the player waits as the time of Ground Cherry's shining passes.
• Its original Chinese name is exactly the same as Grass Lantern's, another Chinese exclusive plant.

See also

• Plantern