Strawberry plants may be found throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. Around 35 species have been found on these three continents, demonstrating the range of conditions in which the plant has thrived. It was most likely distributed by birds, who had little issue delivering the small fruit, which was packed with tiny seeds, over large distances. Our Neolithic forefathers ate it, and the Romans grew it in their gardens 1000 years before our time. It would not, however, become the focus of a true commercial culture until the 15th century. The English, later the Dutch, enhanced the wild species that grew abundantly in the surrounding forests to produce bigger fruits, particularly from the species F. vesca. This species will be cultivated mostly in European gardens until the beginning of the 18th century. However, from the 16th century onwards, the plants of a strawberry with larger fruit and a deeper red (F. virginiana) that explorers had brought back from the north- meaning from the United States- were grown under the cover of the low walls of botanical gardens. However, it will take another 200 years for its culture to truly expand. This will only happen if another species (F. chiloensis) is introduced from America and crosses with it. Amédée François Frézier, a French spy whose task it was to "observe" the port fortifications of Chile and Peru, was the one who discovered her. He'd noted that the Picunches and Mapuches of Chile grew it and ate its fruit in a variety of sauces: fresh, dried, or turned into an alcohol that they served to distinguished guests. A new species will be produced from this mating, sanctified on European soil, between two plants of American origin, which will provide the majority of the world's strawberry output fairly rapidly. It will be known as F. x ananassa (pineapple strawberry) because to the flavor of its fruit, which is akin to pineapple. The French, on the other hand, have clung to their small wild strawberry, which they find far more fragrant than the enormous American hybrid. It is available in local markets during the growing season. It's also popular in residential gardening. It also has its amateurs, who are becoming increasingly prevalent in America.