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One strawberry has more than 400 seeds!
Strawberries and raspberries are members of the rose family!
The large modern strawberry was born in France and was the result of a chance cross between plants from North America and Chile!
Strawberries are either June-bearing or ever-bearing. June-bearers flower and fruit in response to a certain day length. Wisconsin farmers plant almost all June bearing strawberries!
A quart of strawberries weights about 1½ pounds.
Berries contain no fat, cholesterol, or salt.
Strawberry seasons usually last 3-4 weeks. In southern Wisconsin it usually occurs in June.

Strawberry Equivalents

1 quart weighs 1¼ to 1½ pounds
1 quart yields 4-5 servings
1½ quarts are needed for one 9-inch pie
1 cup sliced fresh berries = 10 oz package of frozen sweetened berries.

History of the Strawberry

The name “Strawberry” comes from the Anglo-Saxons who called them strawberries because of the way the plants grow. The runners strew or spread along the ground. Although strawberries were gathered from the wild, the development of the strawberry as a commodity didn’t occur until the 1820’s in England.

The strawberry has an interesting history. Although they grew wild in many parts of the world, the large, beautiful, wonderful tasting strawberries of today (Frangaria x anannassa) are the result of hybridization. The commercial strawberry comes from the cross of two wild American strawberries: the Eastern Meadow Strawberry (Fragaria virginiana) and the Beach Strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis).

The Eastern Meadow Strawberry was taken by early tradesmen from Virginia and planted in the gardens of Europe as a novelty. In 1700, a French botanist named Frezier transplanted the Beach Strawberry form its native home, in Chile, to France. When the Beach and Eastern Meadow strawberries were planted in the same garden, a natural cross pollination occurred. The result was a new superior breed of strawberries that bore large delicious fruits. With rare exceptions, every commercial strawberry on the market today arose from the hybrid cross of these two wild types.

(Source: This information produced by Wisconsin Berry Growers Association.)

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