SC - Fragaria...
jeffrey s heilveil
heilveil at students.uiuc.edu
Thu Feb 5 10:31:27 PST 1998
Lord Ras,
Were these Euro-berries used in recipes in period?
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998 LrdRas at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 2/4/98 12:21:49 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> heilveil at students.uiuc.edu writes:
>
> << A quick, sort of silly question. I know that Fragaria spp. (strawberries)
> are Native US plants, is there a European native variety, or an
> equivalent?
> >>
>
> I don't know how equivalent it is but, the Alpine Strawberry is a nice wild
> species of strawberry native to Europe and readily available at most retail
> seed outlets and most good seed supply companies in the States.. BTW, it is
> also the only strawberry that can be started from seed, IIRC. The berries have
> a nice strwberry flavor and the berries are slightly bigger than Native
> American strawberries. Once naturalized they will come back and multiply each
> year.
>
> Ras
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