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Wild strawberry
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WILD STRAWBERRY Fragaria vesca Family ROSACEAE Wherever there are shady banks and woodland clearings, this charming little plant is sure to be met with. It has a perennial, woody rootstock clothed in silky hairs, from which rise three or four trefoil leaves, and a runner or two starting off to produee young plants. The hairy leaflets are oblong with edges eut into coarse teeth, and showing strongly marked lines on the surface. The white fiowers are borne on the radical, erect fiower-stem, and are about three-quarters of an inch across, the lobes of the calyx showing between the five petais. There is an epicalyx of five bracteoles, which are slightly smaller than the calyx lobes. There are ten stamens and numerous pistils. After fertilization, the receptacle gradually enlarges to such a size that the achenes, formerly paeked close together, become widely separated. The so-called berry beeomes red as it ripens, and its tissues are filled with sweet juices. Flowering nearly the whole summer.

 

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The rootstock is perennial and the branched stems are hollow. The oblong leaves are trifoliate, with longpointed and Wild strawberry toothed stipules at the base of the leaf-stalk. The deep purple (sometimes yellow) flowers are crowded at the top of the long stalks, which rise from the axils of Wild strawberry the leaves. A peculiarity of this genus consists in the downy seed-pod being more or less spirally twisted, so as to form two or sometimes three complete rings or Wild strawberry coils. The flowering period is from May to July.
The long flower-stalks bear many drooping flowers. The flower parts Wild strawberry are in fives. The sep ais are thin and broad, coloured dull-purple or blue like the petaIs. The petaIs terminate at the back in a hollow tube with a strawberry Wild knob at the end in which nectar is secreted. The ovary consists of five carpels, each with its own style and stigma.

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