Strawberry

A strawberry is a short plant  belonging to the wild strawberry genus of the rose family.It is a widely cultivated hybrid species of the genus Fragaria.The name strawberry  refers both to the plant and to its sweet, edible fruit.The fruit is popular for its pleasant flavor and also used to describe flavors that taste like it. 

The true fruit of the strawberry plant are the tiny "seeds" on the surface.What we call the strawberry fruit is actually the swollen ,sweet part of the plants stem surrounding the real fruit, which contains the seeds.Despites it's name,the strawberry are is not a true berry. 

The modern strawberry is a hybrid of two wild strawberry species.It was first cultivated in the 1750's.

Name
The Latin name of the strawberry used in science is × .  is the name of the genus of "strawberry-like" plants. The × mark means that it is a hybrid, a mix of two other species. The Latin name  says the hybrid is "pineapple-like". The strawberry is sometimes called the "gardenstrawberry" so that people don't mix it up with the other wild strawberries of the genus .

The name is a bit misleading and is special to English. The other Germanic languages do not have a name like it. No one is really sure where the name came from.. The plant is not a kind of straw, and its fruit is not really a berry.

History
People have eaten different kinds of wild strawberries for thousands of years. Today's bigger strawberry was first made around Brest in Brittany (northwest France) in the 1750s. It was made by joining the Virginia strawberry from eastern North America to the European Hautbois and the Chilean strawberry from western South America..

Farming
Most strawberries are grown on farms. Strawberry farmers often have bees in hives. The bees pollinate the strawberries.

Strawberry stems are called runners. They grow above ground. They are a type of stolon.

Fruit
The real fruit of the strawberries are the achenes, which people usually think of as the little seeds around the outside of the larger red "fruit". This kind of fruit, where different ovaries grow into a single larger "fruit", is called an "aggregate fruit". 

Strawberries are rich in vitamin C and manganese.

Related pages
 Wild strawberry

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