Wild Strawberries (Fragaria virginiana) the plant from which 90 per cent of all cultivated strawberries originated. True, the berries are much smaller than the cultivated varieties. But the taste is amazing! Each berry seems to pack all the taste of a large strawberry into its small size. And don’t the birds know it! I found these plants flowering in the York Regional Forest but I bet I’ll never see the berries. LOL
Flhttp://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3946649652245671051&postID=7899107821163058138#owers and leaves grow separately on long, slender stalks.With milk-white flowers, whence soon shall sweet
Rich fruitage, to the taste and smell
Pleasant alike, the Strawberry weaves
Its coronet of three-fold leaves,
In mazes through the sloping wood.
—Anonymous
When my children were little there was a wonderous patch near the woods behind our house. You can bet we raced the birds and slugs to be the first to taste the sweetest strawberries ever. MB
ReplyDeleteBirds planted wild strawberry seeds here and they get the ripe berries long before I find them.
ReplyDeleteWish I were a little birdie in your woods. The strawberries we get in produce markets around here are big and tasteless.
ReplyDeleteDarla
Now I would never have thought of taking a picture of a wild strawberry--I don't know why. These are excellent.
ReplyDeleteCool, you have these over the pond as well? I spent much of my youth hunting these in my garden and the woods surrounding my village.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming they're the same species as here: the fruit are white, right?
oooh, thanks for these, ive never seen them before!
ReplyDeleteArlene,
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Beautiful photos of the wild strawberries, and of the may apple in the previous post. We also have both of these species in southern Pennsylvania.
ReplyDeleteI know we must have these about.. but I've never come across any... I would go back every day until I tasted them fully.
ReplyDeleteThose are certainly most amazing.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a child my Grandparents had a huge wild strawberry field behind their house. It was wonderful!
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EG: What a nice capture, I never thought the wild strawberries had that good of a taste. Maybe I tasted them too soon.
ReplyDeleteStupendous photos of the flower of the strawberries. Two precious macros nitidos and with very good light.
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