UK gardening - Re: Wild srawberry but with yellow flower

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Re: Wild srawberry but with yellow flower

jayasatya

2005-07-24, 9:03 pm

Carol Russell Wrote:
> Hello group
>
> I have a plant that looks like a wild strawberry but has a yellow
> flower and
> the fruit is very firm and bitter. Does anybody think they might know
> what
> it is?
>
>
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There are no poisonous plants that resemble strawberries, but there's a
related edible plant called the wood strawberry with yellow flowers, and
a similar fruit surrounded by hairy sepals (modified leaves), that has
no flavor.

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Jaques d'Alltrades

2005-07-24, 9:03 pm

The message <jayasatya.1soww0@gardenbanter.co.uk>
from jayasatya <jayasatya.1soww0@gardenbanter.co.uk> contains these words:

> There are no poisonous plants that resemble strawberries, but there's a
> related edible plant called the wood strawberry with yellow flowers, and
> a similar fruit surrounded by hairy sepals (modified leaves), that has
> no flavor.

Not one that I'm aware of: there are quite a few Potentillas with yellow
flowers, but I've never seen a strawberry-like fruit on one.

Latin name available?

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Mike Lyle

2005-07-25, 9:21 am

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
> The message <jayasatya.1soww0@gardenbanter.co.uk>
> from jayasatya <jayasatya.1soww0@gardenbanter.co.uk> contains these
> words:
>
>
> Not one that I'm aware of: there are quite a few Potentillas with
> yellow flowers, but I've never seen a strawberry-like fruit on one.
>
> Latin name available?

I had these all over the place in Wales: yes, the fruit is almost
tasteless, though sweetish, so children like eating it. I think what
I had was the "Indian strawberry", variously named _Duchesnea indica_
or _Fragaria indica_ (I think the first name is the kosher one). It
doesn't seem to be in my Collins Field Guide, though it's a common
enough introduction as far as I know.

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Jaques d'Alltrades

2005-07-25, 10:21 am

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from "Mike Lyle" <mike_lyle_uk@REMOVETHISyahoo.co.uk> contains these words:

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> I had these all over the place in Wales: yes, the fruit is almost
> tasteless, though sweetish, so children like eating it. I think what
> I had was the "Indian strawberry", variously named _Duchesnea indica_
> or _Fragaria indica_ (I think the first name is the kosher one). It
> doesn't seem to be in my Collins Field Guide, though it's a common
> enough introduction as far as I know.

Perhaps its runners aren't very fast and it hasn't reached East Angular yet?

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Dave Poole

2005-07-25, 4:21 pm

Mike Lyle wrote:

Duchesnia (now Fragaria) indica
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>I had these all over the place in Wales: yes, the fruit is almost
>tasteless, though sweetish, so children like eating it.

Absolutely all over the place here in Devon. It makes me chuckle
because one of those mail-order places once advertised it as a poss.
for hanging baskets and extolled its virtues beyond the bounds of
credibility (no surprises there then). Its a bit of a pest that
inveigles its way amongst your precious stuff and although it isn't
exactly a 'swamper', it can become a damned nuisance.

I regularly rip out girt-great 'anfuls as it attempts to invade my
patch and hand-on-heart, cannot recommend its introduction into
gardens nowadays. It used to be tender-ish, but that was in the days
when the UK had proper winters with several months of frost and
regular, frequent 3 foot + high drifts of snow. Just proves how I've
ancient become

'Dusty-Rusty'

AKA:

Dave Poole
Torquay, Coastal South Devon UK
Winter min -2°C. Summer max 34°C.
Growing season: March - November

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