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18 Aug 2010

Wild strawberry

Wild strawberry fruit.
We have these lovely little strawberries all over the place and they fruit right through the summer. They were started some years ago, grown in a pot by seven-year-old Alex from a packet of seeds. Since then they've multiplied themselves both with runners and with seeds in bird droppings.

Interesting note: Perfectly-shaped strawberries are created only if every single ovary has been pollinated by an insect. (Info here.)

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