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The garden strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa and related cultivars) is the most common variety of strawberry cultivated worldwide.

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The name strawberry is derived from Old English str?awberi?e, which is a compound of streaw, meaning "straw," and berige, meaning "berry."

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Cultivars of Fragaria x ananassa have replaced in commercial production the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca), which was cultivated in the early seventeenth century.

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So from a technical standpoint, the seeds are the actual fruits of the plant, and the flesh of the strawberry is modified receptacle tissue, which contains numerous partially embedded fruits (seeds).

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The European alpine strawberry (Fragaria vesca, commonly known as woodland strawberry, but also wild strawberry, alpine strawberry, and European strawberry) is considered to be more flavorful (Herbst 2001).

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The most common strawberries grown commercially are cultivars of the garden strawberry, Fragaria Ч ananassa.

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The strawberry flower and fruit of the strawberry are not only important for reproduction, but also provide larger values for the ecosystem and for human beings.

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Key to the classification of strawberry species is recognizing that they vary in the number of chromosomes.

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The fleshy, edible strawberry "fruit" is technically not a single fruit nor a berry.

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The mock strawberry and barren strawberry, which both bear resemblance to Fragaria, are closely related species in the genus Potentilla.

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Apart from its interest as a dessert fruit, the strawberry draws interest due to the peculiarities of its structure, its tendency towards variation, and the gardener's success in exploiting this tendency.

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