Daily Journal
May 5th, 2017
Strawberry is cultivated worldwide for its fruit. This fruit is widely appreciated for its characteristic aroma, bright red color, juicy texture, and sweetness. It is consumed in large quantities, either fresh or in such prepared foods as preserves, fruitjuice and milkshakes. Artificial strawberry flavorings and aromas are also widely used in many products like lip gloss, candy, hand sanitizers, perfume, and many others. The garden strawberry was first bred in Brittany, France, in the 1750s via a cross of Fragaria virginiana from eastern North America and Fragarua 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 verga), which was the first strawberry species cultivated in the early 17th century. Technically, the strawberry is an aggregate accessory fruit, meaning that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant's ovaries but from the receptacle that holds the ovaries. Each apparent "seed" on the outside of the fruit is actually one of the ovaries of the flower, with a seed inside it.
Source:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry
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