What's the name of that tiny yellow fruit used to garnish desserts in restaurants?

A lot of my desserts in restaurants have recently been garnished with a tiny yellow fruit (quite bitter) which has beautiful transparent leaves. I think they're like unripe tomatoes and the seeds are similar. Somebody told me they're kumquats but I know they're not because I used to eat kumquats all the time in South America and they're not at all similar. Does anybody know the name of these strange fruits?

What's the name of that tiny yellow fruit used to garnish desserts in restaurants?
They are cape gooseberries, also known as physalis
Reply:Physalis. I actually bought a punnet of them from Asda last week - they're gorgeous!!
Reply:Its certainly not a persimmon or sharon fruit or kaki because they are very sweet and not small, but it could definitely be a physallis because they are small and sharp tasting.
Reply:Is it star fruit or maybe sharon fruit?
Reply:Gooseberry. In south Africa we call them Appelliefies
Reply:by your description it sounds like 'physalis'...not sure of spelling though
Reply:lemon?x
Reply:They are physalisis, not tomatoes or kumquat.
Reply:cape gooseberries, also known as physalis - they have a papery like leaf


kumquats are like little oranges but lemon shaped


physalis are lovely dipped in dark chocolate - but then what isnt
Reply:I think that what you're referring to is either a "persimmon" or a "physalis"....check out the pictures and see if either are the same as what you had on your dessert!





Persimmon:


http://www.hort.purdue.edu/ext/senior/fr...





Physalis:


http://www.physalis-online.de/images/phy...
Reply:Not certain of the spelling of this but it is pronounced


'Kumquat'. Maybe a different variety or we British have got it wrong again!
Reply:yeah theyre valled physillis (can get from any large supermarket...but theyre on offer at tescos at the mo!)