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the only fruit wearing its seeds on the outside like tiny defiant freckles
means A sweet red heart-shaped fruit, technically not a berry, whose tiny seeds dot its outer skin.
from From Old English 'strēawberiġe,' a compound of 'strēaw' (straw) and 'beriġe' (berry). Why 'straw' is the lovely puzzle: theories include the way the runners spread like scattered straw, the practice of mulching the plants with straw, or simply the fine straw-like particles (the seeds) speckling the surface. The truth is genuinely uncertain — the 'straw mulch' story is popular, but the name predates that gardening trick by centuries, so it likely points to those strewn, straw-bit seeds.
- not a berry
- Botanically it isn't a berry at all
- seed count
- About 200 seeds dot each fruit
- swollen receptacle
- The red flesh is a bloated flower stem
- rose cousin
- Belongs to the same family as roses
- vitamin C
- Outpunches oranges gram for gram
fragaria ananassa — the hybrid species created in 18th century france, now the most commercially grown strawberry worldwide
albion strawberry — patented cultivar from uc davis in 2003, grown commercially in california and known for year-round production