Strawberry Flower: IUCN Conservation Status: INSUFFICIENT DATA
I was picking upwards of 50 strawberries in a day!
This strawberry flower was one of many exciting plants that grew in our yard this past year. My wife and I moved in during the month of April, and with each passing week a new plant seemed to pop up in the various gardens that the former owners had planted. The bed of strawberry plants was one of the ones that I was most excited about.
Each strawberry flower meant that a short while later there would be a delicious strawberry where the flower once was. There were days that I was picking 50+ strawberries in the morning!
Strawberry plants that are grown in gardens are a hybrid species from the genus Fragaria. Fragaria x ananassa is the most commonly farmed hybrid, and has all but replaced other strawberries in commercial growing. Strawberries are not technically berries. They are actually accessory fruits. The seeds that we see on the outside of strawberries are not actually seeds! The seeds are inside the part that we see.
Did you know that the first strawberry plant to be cultivated in commercial production was the woodland strawberry, Fragaria vesca?
Strawberries are not technically berries!
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