What is the common name for the fruit Fragaria vesca?
Fragaria vesca Fragaria vesca Fragaria vesca, commonly called wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, Carpathian Strawberry, European strawberry, or fraisier des bois, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the rose family that grows naturally throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere, and that produces edible fruits. Five to eleven soft, hairy white flowers are borne on a green, soft-hairy stalk that usually lifts them above the leaves. The light-green leaves are trifoliate (in threes) with toothed margins. The plant spreads by means of runners (stolons). Vilmorin-Andrieux (1885) makes a distinction between wild or wood strawberries ("Fragaria vesca") and alpine strawberries ("Fragaria alpina"), a
Fragaria vesca the garden strawberry. It is also used as a genetic model plant for garden strawberry and the family Rosaceae in general, due to its: The genome of "Fragaria vesca" was sequenced in 2010. All strawberry (Fragaria) species have a base haploid count of seven chromosomes; "Fragaria vesca" is diploid, having two pairs of these chromosomes for a total of 14. Evidence from archaeological excavations suggests that "Fragaria vesca" has been consumed by humans since the Stone Age. The woodland strawberry was first cultivated in ancient Persia where farmers knew the fruit as "toot farangi". Its seeds were later taken along