Are they still wild strawberries if I grew them in a pot? Or are they more like semi-feral strawberries? 😜😂
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Those look like mock strawberries. I’ve heard they don’t taste too good.
They look like mock strawberries to me because the seeds project out rather than being in a dimple.
Mock strawberries taste very watery. Not necessarily gross, but not really desirable either.
vesca’s seeds grow out, virginiania’s are dimpled.
Kind of like watery foam
They look like wild California strawberries to me, which I’ve grown in the past and were sweet and delicious:
https://calscape.org/plant/1666/Fragaria-vesca-(Woodland-Strawberry)
yah, mock strawberries, in my experience, don’t get that big.
i’ve never had the vesca, but i grow virginiania, and while small, they are very delicious. vesca is very similar, from my understanding.
they look normal to me? Mock strawberries seem to be very spherical and have “extruded” seeds, whereas these look strawberry-y and have seeds that sit right on the surface.
If they start peeing in a box and begging for food, then they’re domesticated.
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Depends on what they do in their spare time.
I’ve got a volunteer strawberry plant exactly like this that just popped up in one of my pots. Really tasty little berries, too; I thought at first I had somehow ended up with an alpine strawberry, but I believe it’s just a wild strawberry (as opposed to flavorless mock strawberries sometimes mistakenly called wild strawberries.) Been bearing fruit continuously for a few months, too. Currently trying to get some seeds to grow hydroponically, because I could go for this year round.
Edit: in researching, it seems like alpine strawberries may just be wild woodland strawberries in a fancier hat, so there may not be an appreciable distinction.
I don’t even see straws in those berries.
We call them “Smultron” in Sweden and they are just what strawberries where before cultivation. My garden is full of them.
interestingly modern strawberries are just a hybrid between two (or maybe more) species of wild strawberries, AFAIK there wasn’t even that much cultivation done to get them big!
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Are they everbearing strawberries? I have a few of them. They produce really small ones like that but last all summer.
Is that a thing? How do they do indoors? I could go for a random strawberry throughout the year.
I dont know honestly. Mine are outdoors.
It depends. Do they come to you when you call them?
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@NickEastPhoto @allotments @gardening@fedigroups.social @gardening@lemmy.world They count as wild if they have appeared from nowhere. I’ve quite a few in my garden, along with blackberries that appeared the same way. If they had landed in a pot, they would still be the same (although might not be taking over the whole patch of garden they are in which mine have). Those look a fairly good size too.
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