Latin name: Fragaria ananassa Duchesne.
Then early in the 18th century, the large Chilean strawberry(Fragaria Chiloensis) came to France.
A strawberry(Fragaria) is a sweet,
red heart-shaped fruit, that is much adored for its delicious taste.
A strawberry(Fragaria) is a sweet,
red heart-shaped fruit, which is much loved for its delicious taste.
First the very hardy Virginia strawberry(Fragaria Virginiana), a native of North America,
reached Europe in the 17th century.
A strawberry(Fragaria) is a sweet,
red heart-shaped fruit, which is much-loved for its delicious taste and for its nutritional benefits.
A strawberry(Fragaria) is a sweet,
red heart-shaped fruit, which is much loved for its delicious taste and for its nutritional benefits.
Some 500 years ago, the wood strawberry, Fragaria vesca,
was around in Europe and the musk strawberry, Fragaria moschata, was starting to be cultivated.
The garden strawberry was first bred in Brittany, France, in the 1750s via a cross of
Fragaria virginiana from eastern North America and Fragaria chiloensis, which was brought from Chile by Amédée-François Frézier in 1714.
Cultivars of Fragaria × ananassa have replaced, in commercial production, the woodland strawberry(Fragaria vesca), which was the first strawberry species cultivated in the early 17th century.