Chinese lantern rename

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After multiple cleanups, it's clear that chinese_lantern is a confusingly-named tag that invites misuse. The tag gets regularly used in place of paper lantern, especially for those of the collapsible type. Regular maintenance can help keep this problem from getting out of hand, but it isn't going to stop as long as the tag is named in a way that most people associate with the lantern rather than the flower. Multiple users I've messaged about incorrectly using this tag have responded with Google Images results full of actual lanterns, and it's hard to argue against that kind of evidence.

Wouldn't it make more sense to rename this tag to something less ambiguous like chinese_lantern_(flower) or physalis? Not as an alias, just a bulk rename like we did with straw, so anything that gets added back to the old tag will be easy to find and deal with.

We also have a ground cherry tag referring to fruits of this plant, apparently without regard for whether the papery husks are present or not. Since both these tags appear to be used for the same purpose, would it be alright to merge them together?

I feel like chinese lantern (plant) should be fine, since it is always inclusive of the plants regardless of their state, whether blooming or fruiting, whether the husks are present (post #1855507) or not (post #1339421).

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