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The following is a partial list of strawberry cultivars. Strawberries come in a wide assortment of commercially available cultivars (cultivated varieties). Differences between cultivars may include the date the fruit ripens, disease resistance, freezing quality, firmness, berry size, berry shape, and flavor.
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Strawberries were eaten fresh with cream in the time of Thomas Wolsey in the court of King Henry VIII. [61] Strawberries can be frozen or made into jam or preserves, [62] as well as dried and used in prepared foods, such as cereal bars. [63] In the United Kingdom, strawberries and cream is a popular dessert at the Wimbledon tennis tournament. [61]
Some towns have annual strawberry festivals, see Strawberry festival § United States. The Driscoll's company began with strawberries here and still grows and sells here; they have since expanded to other states, countries, and types of berries. Cal Poly runs the Strawberry Center [5] for both research, and producer education.
The most commonly consumed strawberry species in modern times is the garden strawberry, a species derived from hybridization of two other species, with the scientific name Fragaria × ananassa, [1] but there are many species of strawberries, several others of which are cultivated to some extent. The strawberry species fall into several ...
The fruit of the wild strawberry is smaller than that of the garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa). Botanically, the fruit is classified as an aggregate accessory fruit, but it is commonly called a berry. [5] [1] Strawberries reproduce both sexually by seed, and asexually by runners .
Mahabaleshwar strawberries Mahabaleshwar strawberry is a strawberry grown in the hilly slopes of Mahabaleshwar , which accounts for about 85 percent of the total strawberry produced in India . Strawberry, along with raspberry , mulberry and gooseberry , is produced on a large scale in and around Mahabaleshwar.
Fragaria vesca, commonly called the wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, Carpathian strawberry or European strawberry, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the rose family that grows naturally throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, and that produces edible fruits.