Chinese lantern

A Chinese lantern can refer to the following:

• A collapsible paper lantern or sky lantern in bright colours, primarily red but also other colours, used for decorative purposes, commonly painted with Chinese art and calligraphy motifs.
• Shrubs in the genus Abutilon:

• Abutilon × hybridum
• Abutilon pictum

• The shrub or small tree Dichrostachys cinerea
• The herbaceous plant Physalis alkekengi
• The plant Quincula lobata
• The Chinese lantern structure, a molecule containing two metal centers bridged by four bidentate ligands.