What do you know about Strawberries?

Question

Do you know anything interesting about strawberries?
I am doing an assignment wiith a friend and we need to know about strawberries? Know anything that might help us? Thanks for looking!

Thanks everybody...know anything more? Something that stands out...that an entire class would find interesting?

Answer 1

you can cook with them and break them down into a sauce

Answer 2

The name is derived from Old English strēawberiġe which is a compound of streaw meaning "straw" and berige meaning "berry". The reason for this is unclear. It may derive from the strawlike appearance of the runners, or from an obsolete denotation of straw, meaning "chaff", referring to the scattered appearance of the achenes.

Interestingly, in other Germanic countries there is a tradition of collecting wild strawberries by threading them on straws. In those countries people find straw-berry to be an easy word to learn considering their association with straws.

There is an alternative theory that the name derives from the Anglo-Saxon verb for "strew" (meaning to spread around) which was streabergen (Strea means "strew" and Bergen means "berry" or "fruit") and thence to streberie, straiberie, strauberie, straubery, strauberry, and finally, "strawberry", the word which we use today. The name might have come from the fact that the fruit and various runners appear "strewn" along the ground.

Popular etymology has it that it comes from gardeners' practice of mulching strawberries with straw to protect the fruits from rot (a pseudoetymology that can be found in non-linguistic sources such as the Old Farmer's Almanac 2005). However, there is no evidence that the Anglo-Saxons ever grew strawberries, and even less that they knew of this practice.

The strawberry (Fragaria) is a genus of plants in the family Rosaceae, and the fruit of these plants. There are more than 20 named species and many hybrids and cultivars. The most common strawberries grown commercially are cultivars of the Garden strawberry, a Fragaria × ananassa hybrid. Strawberries are a valuable source of vitamin C. See Garden Strawberry for information about the fruit as a food.

The strawberry is an accessory fruit; that is, the fleshy part is derived not from the ovaries (which are the "seeds", actually achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the hypanthium that held the ovaries. So from a technical standpoint, the seeds are the actual fruits of the plant, and the flesh of the strawberry is a vegetable. It is greenish-white as it develops and in most species turns red when ripe.

The rosette growth of the plants are a well-known characteristic. Most species send out long slender runners that produce a new bud and roots at the extremity, allowing the plant to spread vegetatively. The leaves typically have three leaflets, but the number of leaflets may be five or one.

While the flower has the typical rosaceous structure, the fruit is very peculiar, but it may be understood by the contrast it presents with the rose hip of the rose. In a rose the top of the flower-stalk expands as it grows into a vase-shaped cavity, the hip, within which are concealed the true fruits or seed-vessels. In the rose the extremity of the floral axis is concave and bears the carpels in its interior. In the strawberry, the receptacle (floral axis), instead of being concave, swells out into a fleshy, dome-shaped or flattened mass in which the achenes or true fruits, commonly called pips or seeds, are more or less embedded but never wholly concealed. A ripe strawberry in fact may be aptly compared to the fruit of a rose turned inside out.

There are more than 20 different Fragaria species worldwide. Key to the classification of strawberry species is recognizing that they vary in the number of chromosomes. There are seven basic types of chromosomes that they all have in common. However, they exhibit different polyploidy. Some species are diploid, having two sets of the seven chromosomes (14 chromosomes total). Others are tetraploid (four sets, 28 chromosomes total), hexaploid (six sets, 42 chromosomes total), octoploid (eight sets, 56 chromosomes total), or decaploid (ten sets, 70 chromosomes total).

As a rough rule (with exceptions), strawberry species with more chromosomes tend to be more robust and produce larger plants with larger berries (Darrow).

Answer 3

Monkeysgirl04,
You're in luck.
Strawberries have been found to
be full of vitamins (sorry, can't find
the article) and they are especially
good for the more mature people.
It helps with cardiovascular problems
and others.
It is very important to wash them
thoroughly and to remove the black
little pits they have on the surface.
Those can be very damaging.

Try to look under benefits of strawberries.

Answer 4

OH! My favorite fruit, it is a member of the rose family and its uniqueness lies in its seeds which are found outside of the fruit itself instead of being inside like the rest of the fruits.
And beleive it or not it has more vitamin C than citrus fruits.

Answer 5

Kind of weird, but technically, strawberries aren't considered "berries" at all. However, grapes, tomatoes and even bananas are scientifically considered "berries", because their insides are soft, mushy and have multiple seeds. Strange world, isn't it?

Answer 6

it has a strawberry farm in baguio, Philippines and they have annual strawberry festival, one time baked the guiness record for biggest strawberry cake, it can be made as jam, eat with milk or plain, have it as smoothie, garnish on cakes, pies...

Answer 7

strawberries combats cancer, protects your heart, boost memory, and calms stress.

I am taking an class that is dealing with fruits and how they effect your body.

Answer 8

If you transplant part of a root, you can grow a whole new plant!

Answer 9

Many people are allergic to them.

Answer 10

They are red. HAHA sorry I thought that was funny.