Fragaria vesca

Alpine strawberry, Woodland strawberry

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What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit, Leaves - tea

The fruit is aromatic, sweet and succulent, eaten raw or dried for later use, and grows to about 15mm in diameter. Fresh or dried leaves can be brewed into an excellent tea.

Where to Find It

It is a temperate plant. It grows in the highlands in the tropics. It grows from 1600 m up to 3550 m in the tropics. They do poorly in hot humid climates. It becomes naturalised in high mountain regions in Papua New Guinea. It needs well drained soils and a protected sunny position. They are drought and frost tender. They enjoy acid soil. It suits hardiness zones 5-9. In Sichuan and Yunnan.

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How to Identify

A small plant which keeps growing from year to year. It grows to 20 cm high and spreads to 30 cm wide. The stems are long runners which form roots at the nodes. The leaves have 3 leaflets and are bright green. The leaflets are oval and with coarse teeth around the edge. They are 6 cm long and arranged in rings on long leaf stalks. The flowers are small white and open. They have 5 petals. The fruit are oval and fleshy. They are white and turn red (or white) as they ripen. They are sweet. A strawberry with small leaves and fruit and the seeds are on the outside of the fruit.

How to Grow

They can be grown from seed. Seed are best put in a refrigerator for 2 weeks before planting. Mostly they are grown from runners. It grows wild in some areas.

Propagation: Sow seed in early spring in a greenhouse; germination can take 4 weeks or more. Seedlings start very small and slow-growing before picking up pace. Prick out into individual pots when large enough and plant out during summer. Runners are best divided in July/August to allow establishment before the following year's crop, though they can also be moved the following spring — plants moved then should not be allowed to fruit in their first year. Runners can be planted directly into permanent positions.

Medicinal Uses

The leaves are astringent and a decoction has been used in the treatment of dysentery. The plant is also noted as antidiarrhoeal, antirheumatic, diuretic, and tonic, and has laxative properties.

Other Uses

Used cosmetically and as a teeth cleaner. Functions as a dynamic accumulator, gathering minerals and nutrients from the soil in a bioavailable form for use as fertilizer or mulch. Suited to food forest systems.

Wikipedia

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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. The Latin specific epithet vesca literally means "thin" or "feeble", but likely carries the sense "edible" in this context (compare vescor, "to eat").

Other Information

It is sold in local markets.

Notes

The cultivated strawberry is a variation of this plant. This plant has 2 sets of chromosomes. This has also been changed to 8 sets of chrosomes so that it can be crossed with the garden strawberry.

Names & Synonyms

Ameibuji, Bhui aselu, Bhuikaphal, Buti, Czerwone, Dag cilegi, Dau-tay, Divlja jagoda, Dreza, Erdei, Fodi eper, Fresa silvestre, Fragola, Fragula, Frutilla, Getnamori, Gorska yagoda, Jagoda sumska, Lulestrydhe, Maasikas, Maduixera, Maiore, Mandzoi, Mark-jordbaer, Marts'qvi, Maizi, Metsmaasikas, Meza zemenes, Navadni jagodnjak, Pahari rashberi, Paziemkos, Sa-mrep, Strawberi hutan, Wilde aardbei, Xia jiu, Yabani cilek, Zemlianika

Fragaria insularis Rydb.Fragaria monophylla DuchesneFragaria vesca var. monophylla (Duchesne) Ser.Potentilla vesca (L.) Scop.See Fragaria nubicola

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