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Alkekengi from South Europe has long been known in gardens for its bright orange-red globular calyxes.

Stem about four feet high, erect and branching; leaves oval, somewhat triangular, soft and velvety; flowers yellow, spotted with deep purple; fruit yellow, of the size of the Common Yellow Alkekengi, enclosed in an angular, inflated calyx, and scarcely distinguishable from the last named.

P. Alkekengi grows to the height of about two feet.

It is larger than that of the old Winter Cherry, P. Alkekengi.