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hi, i live in north east texas (8a) and these plants with red small strawberry-like fruits and serrated, 1/2 inch leaves have been coming up since i moved to my house, about 10 years ago. are they strawberries? edible? species? i looked them up in delena tull's edible and useful plants of texas but she said they were very rare in texas.
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Re: wild strawberries?
Thu, January 29, 2009 - 11:26 AMsure look and sound like wild strawberries. or maybe escaped culitvated alpin go ahead and try 'em. it's amost unubtedl he same species.etype strawberries. not likely to harm you anyway.
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Re: wild strawberries?
Thu, January 29, 2009 - 11:28 AMsweet thanks, they go all the way around my house.
food is abundant you just got to look!
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Re: wild strawberries?
Thu, January 29, 2009 - 11:30 AMDo you have a picture of the fruits? Even a green one would do. The leaves you are showing do look like strawberries, but there is another plant with somewhat similar leaves that has a red fruit that is *not* a strawberry. The fruits of that other plant tend to point straight up, while strawberries hang down. Also the green part between the stem and the fruit (don't know the name for this, sorry) is shaped differently.
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Re: wild strawberries?
Thu, January 29, 2009 - 11:43 AM
Here's a pretty good picture of strawberry plants and also fruits showing how they hang on the stem:
leslieland.com/blog/wild-...rawberries/
I couldn't find a good picture of the look-alike that is not strawberry, sorry.
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Thu, January 29, 2009 - 11:54 AMthanks.. i dont remember if they point up or down. i guess you'll just have to wait until spring for a response! -
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Thu, January 29, 2009 - 12:00 PM
Also notice that the leaves of the real strawberry plants have deeper grooves than the pictures you are showing.
No worries on me getting a response, I just don't want you to pop a handful in your mouth if you're not *sure*. If it happens that you are still not 100% sure, but you want to try one, try the tiniest bite you can manage, and swish it around in your mouth a bit. If you notice any strange taste or sensation, that may tell you it's not a strawberry.
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Re: wild strawberries?
Thu, January 29, 2009 - 12:03 PMthe one around my home in the NW are so packed with flavor you know it's a strawberry.... -
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Thu, January 29, 2009 - 2:42 PMwhy is everything perfect in the northwest? -
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Re: wild strawberries?
Thu, January 29, 2009 - 4:52 PMI do not know.. but all the plants seem to know how to look great for the camera..lol -
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Re: wild strawberries?
Fri, January 30, 2009 - 11:44 AMif the flowers are white, you have wild strawberry. if the flowers are yellow you have Indian strawberry, both are edible
but the wild strawberries are much more flavorful, the Indian ones kind of taste like sugarwater when ripe.
Indian strawberry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_strawberry
wild strawberry en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood...Strawberry
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Sat, January 31, 2009 - 12:08 PMthanks so much.. great articles
im almost positive it is the indian strawberry. that's exactly what the fruit look like.
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Re: wild strawberries?
Thu, January 29, 2009 - 12:45 PMHere's a good pic of wild strawberries in amongst other plants..
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Hope the links work
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Re: wild strawberries?
Fri, January 30, 2009 - 3:36 PMHi,
The way to positively identify a plant is by its flower. The leaves are secondary.
When these plant do into flower, post some photos of that and we can help you.
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Re: wild strawberries?
Fri, January 30, 2009 - 8:08 PMIn actuality you will need the whole plant, complete with root,stem,leaf, buds, flower,and fruit , to be 100% positive of any plant i.d. and then it
can still be tricky in some cases in this example Potentilla (cinquifoil) Vs. Fragaria (strawberries) ,both of them being closely related genus in the family rosaceae,
there are many white flowered cinquifoils but no yellow flowered strawberries, so yellow flowers and you have cinquifoil.
Strawberries are almost exclusively white flowered save for a few cultivars, which are pink flowered.
cinquifoils come in an array of colors from lavender to red ,yellow,white,pink.
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Re: wild strawberries?
Sat, January 31, 2009 - 12:08 PMi will do that when they flower
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