Wild strawberries - beneficial properties. Meadow strawberries: characteristics and beneficial properties Useful properties of strawberries

Growing in forests, they have a much brighter taste and aroma compared to their garden counterparts. Today we will talk about forest, which is a storehouse of useful substances and, in addition to cooking, is widely used in and even cosmetology.

Description

Important! To make medicines based on strawberry fruits more effective, collect them together with the stalk.

An infusion of the herb is drunk as a prophylactic and vitamin remedy. A decoction of the roots is used as a diuretic, as well as for rheumatism and uterine bleeding. A decoction of leaves and roots is used for bronchitis, skin rashes, and urolithiasis.

In cosmetology

The berries are also used in cosmetology. They have a pigment-constricting, drying, whitening effect and help with acne. Strawberries are ground into puree, wrapped in gauze and applied to the face as a mask, left for 15 minutes, then washed off with warm milk or water.

In cooking

First of all, it is eaten fresh; in itself it is very sweet and aromatic. The classic is with cream, simple, but at the same time one of the most exquisite delicacies.

If the harvest is too large and you can’t handle it fresh, there are many options for what you can do with wild strawberries. Firstly, these are preparations for the winter - jams, confitures,... Some of the fruits can be dried and added to tea. This berry is often used in baking and for preparing various sauces, including for meat. The flight of fancy here is almost limitless. In the end, you can simply freeze it and use it in winter for pies and compotes.

Contraindications for use

Despite its beneficial qualities, forest herb is a strong allergen, so it should be used with caution by people prone to diathesis, as well as pregnant women and children. To minimize the manifestations of allergies, it is recommended to consume berries with fermented milk products.

Hand masks are also made from the berries, mixing them with honey and cottage cheese. Also from the forest

Etymology

Initially, strawberries in Rus' and in Russia for many centuries were called green strawberries, which have spherical berries. The name "Strawberry" comes from the Slavic and Old Russian word "klub", meaning "spherical, round body". But during the scientific classification of plants of the Strawberry genus in the 18th century, this name was assigned not to it, but to Muscat Strawberry, which was more common in Europe and in the 18th century replaced the previously cultivated green strawberry in gardens in Russia. And therefore, in order not to confuse the berries, names appeared depending on the area - “Russian strawberries”, “Forest strawberries”, “Meadow strawberries”, “Steppe strawberries”. The name “Green Strawberry” was due to the fact that even completely unripe berries have a greenish-white color, are sweet and soft, with a specific taste. It is called “Polunitsa” due to the fact that almost ripe berries are colored red in the sunny side, in the shade they remain whitish (semi-red) for a long time. Since the berries are denser and harder in consistency than wild strawberries and garden strawberries, they are sometimes also called “rubbyanka”.

And it is about green strawberries, as A.S. Pushkin wrote about strawberries in his autobiographical diaries on November 19, 1824, describing the events of July 1817 in the village of Mikhailovskoye:

Having left the Lyceum, I almost immediately left for my mother’s Pskov village. I remember how happy I was about rural life, the Russian bathhouse, strawberries, etc., but I didn’t like all this for long. I loved and still love noise and crowds and agree with Voltaire that the village is est le premier...

Quite often, people in Russia, in the areas where it grows, call it by its historical name - strawberry. However, it differs in many ways from pineapple strawberries, which appeared en masse in Russia only in the 19th-20th centuries and is also called strawberries by most native speakers, although it originated from Virginia and Chilean strawberries, and not from garden strawberries, meadow strawberries, and forest strawberries.

Spreading

Botanical description

A perennial herbaceous plant 5-20 cm high, with a thick brown rhizome. The mustache is short. The stem is thin.

The leaves are oval or ovoid, more diamond-shaped, bluntly toothed, covered with dense hairs below.

The inflorescence is irregular, few-flowered. The flowers are bisexual, white, up to 20 mm in diameter. The petals are slightly pointed at the ends and overlap each other with their edges.

Fragaria viridis can be easily distinguished from Fragaria vesca by leaves: the final (upper) tooth of the leaf F. viridis short and its tip is on the same line drawn between the tips of two adjacent lateral teeth or does not even reach it. U F. vesca the terminal tooth is longer and rises above the neighboring ones.

The fruits of green strawberries contain sugars (from 4.5 to 15%), pectin substances (from 1 to 1.7%), tannins (from 0.16 to 0.25% in the leaves and up to 9.4% in the rhizome ), ascorbic acid (up to 90 mg in fruits and up to 280 mg in leaves per 100 g), as well as folic, malic, citric, salicylic, quinic and other acids, carotene, essential oil, phytoncides, fiber, iron and copper salts , manganese, zinc, chromium.

Meaning and Application

Gifts of Russian Wildlife

Before its introduction into cultivation in Russia, nutmeg strawberries were widely cultivated in gardens and were called strawberries. After the appearance of garden strawberries, the latter replaced them, as well as muscat strawberries. In the places where they grow, it is widely collected by the local population, since green strawberries are more productive, the fruits are larger, do not have a slight bitterness when making jam, when frozen and dried, and are sweeter than wild strawberries.

The plant has diuretic, hemostatic, astringent and anti-inflammatory effects. The fruits have anti-inflammatory, diaphoretic, antiseptic and mild laxative effects.

Taxonomy

View Strawberry meadow belongs to the genus Strawberry subfamily Rosoideae family Rosaceae ( Rosaceae) order Rosaceae ( Rosales).

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Notes

1. For the convention of indicating the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons”.
2. The Russian name of the taxon is according to the following edition: Shroter A. I., Panasyuk V. A. Dictionary of Plant Names = Dictionary of Plant Names / Int. union biol. Sciences, National Faculty of Biologists of Russia, Vseros. Institute of Lec. and aromatic plants Ros. agricultural academies; Ed. prof. V. A. Bykova. - Koenigstein: Koeltz Scientific Books, 1999. - P. 320. - 1033 pp. - ISBN 3-87429-398-X.
3. Strawberries, Information portal on gardening, floriculture and landscape design.

Strawberry (Latin Fragaria, translated as “fragrant”) is a genus of perennial herbaceous plants of the rose family (Rosaceae). The name of this genus was given by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus. The presented genus includes more than 20 species of berry plants. Let's get acquainted with the most common wild plants from this botanical classification.

Characteristics of the strawberry family

Wild strawberries (Fragaria vesca) grow in many European countries, throughout the Siberian taiga, on the slopes of the Caucasus mountains, in forest and forest-steppe zones of Central Asia, throughout the European part of the Russian Federation. The plant lives in sunlit clearings and forest edges, in steppes, in places of deforestation, on hillsides, near forest roads, among thickets of bushes.

The maximum height of the plant is 20 cm. Wild strawberries have a small rhizome, with many thin adventitious small roots. Aboveground shoots (whiskers) are long, creeping, they take root in the nodes, due to which plants reproduce. The leaves are alternate, growing from the basal axils, on long petioles, large, jagged in shape. The upper part of the leaf is light green, smooth, the bottom of the leaf is green with a grayish tint and edge.

The plants are 1-1.5 cm in diameter, are on long stalks and are collected in inflorescences; they are bisexual. The flowers are quite large and white. The berries are small, round, slightly oval or cone-shaped. The color of ripe berries can range from bright red to almost white. The berries are very juicy with a pleasant taste and aroma. The plant begins to bloom in late May, early June, bears fruit from the second decade of June until the end of July. Strawberries are high-yielding.

Green strawberry (also called polnitsa) (Fragaria viridis) is located on forest edges and meadows. Strawberries grow in Europe and Asia (in areas with a predominant temperate climate). The plant has a height of no more than 25 cm, the leaves are dark green, the flowers are bisexual, the diameter of which does not exceed 2.4 cm. During the growing season, a few very short knotless tendrils grow. The fruit size is similar to wild strawberries. The shape of the berries can be either round or ovoid. The color of the berries is predominantly pink, sometimes bright red or yellowish-white with a red upper part of the fruit.

Muscat strawberries - popularly called wild strawberries - grow throughout the European part of the Russian Federation and in a large part of Siberia. Strawberries grow in juniper thickets, in pine forests, on mountain slopes, on the edges of forests, and can be found next to embankments along roads. The plant has a thin stem, the height of which is from 5 to 18 cm, an underdeveloped rhizome, and very short creeping shoots (whiskers).

The leaves are trifoliate, are on short petioles, the bottom of the leaf has a silky edge to the touch. The flowers are mostly white, but sometimes there are plants with pinkish flowers. Strawberries are small in size and spherical in shape. The color of the fruit is mainly light pink (sometimes soft yellow), which smoothly turns into the red tip of the berry. The fruits have a very pleasant smell. The plant begins to bloom at the end of May, harvesting occurs at the end of July and August.

Kinds

Different types of strawberries are similar in appearance, their main differences are:

• size of flowers and size of berries;
• appearance of berries in shape and color;
• difference in leaf shape, relief and color;
• the location of the antennae towards the central stem;
• the shape of the stalk and the ability to separate it from the berry;
• different volumes of yield;
• different taste qualities and aroma of berries.

Externally, the flowers of all plants of the rose family look similar - they are almost all white and have five petals. The main difference between different types of strawberries is that the plants have flowers:

• unisexual and dioecious, that is, there are female and male plants;
• monoecious and capable of self-pollinating.

On male bushes of unisexual plants, flowers have only stamens, while on female bushes, flowers have pistils. In order for a berry to form, it is necessary for insects to carry out pollination. In the spring, wild strawberries bloom very profusely and beautifully, but without pollination you can generally be left without a harvest. A consequence of the heterosexuality of plants is that very few fruits are set.

Wild and meadow berries

In the forest, under the shade of trees, wild strawberries grow, and in the clearings, where there is plenty of sun, its meadow variety grows. Meadow strawberries and meadow strawberries are different types of plants that differ from each other in many ways. The berries of meadow strawberries are similar in taste and appearance to the berries of garden strawberries, their pulp is very tender, much more tender than meadow strawberries, such a berry can be picked without a stalk. In turn, the taste of meadow strawberries is significantly different from garden ones. Its fruits are much smaller and have their own unique bright aroma.

The stalk of the meadow strawberry is very tightly attached to the berry, so the berry cannot be picked without it.

Taste qualities

The taste of strawberries is almost impossible not to recognize. The aroma of wild strawberries has notes of musk and honey; experienced foresters call this aroma “the smell of the forest.” It is no coincidence that strawberries have a name – fragaria moschata (Latin), which means nutmeg.

The taste of different types of strawberries is very different:

• even unripe wild strawberries have a pronounced sweet taste, but wild strawberries are always sour, so their taste is associated with notes of kiwi fruit;
• the pulp of wild strawberries can be pink or red, while that of its relatives is only white;
• The peculiarity of wild strawberries is that their berries have hard seeds.

Growing

Agricultural technology for wild strawberries in garden plots is not difficult. The plant is unpretentious, and even when planted in places where there is slight darkness, it grows and bears fruit very well. Planting can be done both in autumn and spring. The planting material is mustache. It is best to plant in rows, following the pattern: there should be a distance of 60-70 cm between the rows, and 20 cm between the bushes. To obtain a harvest from dioecious plants, it is necessary to plant plants of different sexes.

It should be noted that male bushes show their aggressive character and grow wildly, thus, from year to year they displace specimens with female flowers.

There is a problem of pollination - due to which the ovary does not appear on all plants. If garden strawberries grow in a garden plot, then you should not plant wild strawberries nearby, because they can cross-pollinate, as a result, you can get new plants that will practically be weeds, unable to produce a high-quality harvest.

You will learn how to prepare wild strawberries for the winter in the following video.

Strawberry (lat. Fragaria) is a perennial herbaceous plant that belongs to the flowering department, dicotyledonous class, order Rosaceae, rose family, subfamily Rosaceae, genus strawberry.

The origin of the Russian name of the plant is associated with the old Russian word “strawberry”, and all due to the fact that strawberries often bend under their weight on the stems directly to the surface of the earth. The botanical name of strawberry comes from the Latin “fragaris”, which means “fragrant”, because the fruits of this plant are indeed very fragrant and emit a pleasant aroma.

Strawberries - description, characteristics, photos. What do strawberries look like?

The strawberry root system is a rather thick, fibrous, brown rhizome. The roots are well developed and lie in the ground at a depth of 20-25 centimeters.

Strawberry leaves are trifoliate, oval, ovate or ovoid-rhombic in shape, dark green in color, depending on the type they can be large or medium in size, the edge of the leaf is serrated. The height of the petioles on which the leaf plates are located reaches a height of 25 cm. The lower part of the leaves usually has pubescence.

The strawberry inflorescence is a few-flowered or multi-flowered shield located on long peduncles up to 40 cm high, which extend from the root collar of the plant in the form of a rosette.

Strawberry flowers are most often bisexual (there are species with unisexual flowers), insect-pollinated, with white, pink, red or slightly yellowish petals, with many stamens and pistils.

Strawberry fruits are false berries (multi-nuts) of pink, red, white, yellow or crimson color, which are covered with brownish seeds on top.

Where do strawberries grow?

Botanists believe that strawberries originally appeared in East Asia, and only later did a fairly large-scale spread of its species to other countries occur. Today, the distribution area of ​​this berry is quite extensive. Strawberries grow in Europe and the USA, Asia, Russia and the former CIS countries, Western and Eastern Siberia, grow in the Himalayas, Japan, Bulgaria, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Italy, Canada, Germany, the Baltic countries, and North Africa. Strawberries are found along the Atlantic coast north of the Gulf of Mexico and are distributed there up to Hudson Bay, as well as west of the Atlantic Ocean to the Missouri River.

Strawberries are not too demanding on the soil composition and environmental conditions, so this plant can be found on sunny forest edges, in fairly shady thickets, in open meadows with mixed herbs, and in mountainous areas on poor humus soil.

Types of strawberries, photos and names

The strawberry genus includes both wild species and cultivated forms developed as a result of breeding work and hybridization. Below is a description of some varieties of strawberries.

• Strawberry pineapple, she's the same garden strawberries or large-fruited strawberry ( Frag aria anana ssa)

This is a cultural representative of the Dutch selection, bred in the 18th century by hybridizing large-fruited Chilean strawberries and frost-resistant Virginia strawberries. The leaves are large, located on high (20-25 cm) petioles. Pineapple strawberry flowers are white, although there are decorative varieties with pink and red flowers. The berries are most often red, sometimes pink or white. Many people mistakenly call it strawberry due to the large size of the fruit. As a result of the selectively increased fruit mass, individual berries weigh from 5 to 75 grams. A fruit weighing 250 grams is included in the Guinness Book of Records. This type of strawberry is widely cultivated in Bulgaria and the USA, Germany and Russia, Italy, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Canada. Today, more than two thousand varieties of pineapple strawberries have been bred.

• Chilean strawberry ( Fragaria chiloensis)

All parts of the Chilean strawberry are pubescent, the leaves are trifoliate, round in shape, green in color with a slight tint of blue. Flowers with white petals are located on short peduncles. Pale red or whitish strawberry fruits with dense pulp, large (2-4 cm in diameter), are easily separated from the sepals when ripe. This type of strawberry does not tolerate cold winters well and is susceptible to blight. Chilean strawberries grow along the Chilean coast, covering large areas up to the Antarctic Circle and the mountainous regions of the Andes, common in America, found in Hawaii, and thrive in mountainous areas at an altitude of up to 1.5 km above sea level.

• Musk strawberry or nutmeg strawberry, aka tall strawberry, garden strawberry, real strawberry, European strawberry, tall strawberry, Spanish strawberry or spandex ( Frag aria moscha ta)

The long, 15 to 40 cm, erect stems and short petioles of strawberry leaves of this species are densely covered with hairs. The trifoliate leaves are ovate-rhombic in shape, large, with a widely serrated edge, pubescent above and below, with pronounced venation. Large (up to 2.5 centimeters in diameter) flowers are usually unisexual; the male flowers have numerous stamens, the length of which reaches 1.5 cm. The berries of the nutmeg strawberry are quite small - only 3-5 g in weight, have a spherical or ovoid shape and have a pleasant aroma of nutmeg and honey. The color of the fruit varies from pinkish and red to greenish-white berries with one red side. The species is distributed in Russia and European countries, with the exception of the far north and south.

• Oriental strawberry ( Frag aria orienta lis)

It has ovate-rhombic leaves with 6-9 teeth, densely pubescent below and only slightly above. The petioles are long. Tall stems up to 30 cm long are also covered with hairs. The eastern strawberry whiskers are long, but may be completely absent. Bisexual flowers are from 1.5 to 3 cm in diameter, collected in inflorescences of 2-7 pieces. The fruits are round or cone-shaped, uniformly colored red. Eastern strawberries grow in Eastern and Western Siberia, the Altai Territory, the Far Eastern region of Russia, Korea and Mongolia.

• Virginia strawberry(Fragaria virginiana)

Brought to Europe from the American state of Virginia, it is characterized by intensive shoot formation. The height of the plant reaches 25 cm. The strawberry leaves are dark green in color, large, located on long petioles covered with hairs. White flowers are collected in inflorescences of five pieces. The fruits are conical in shape, up to two cm in diameter, and have a characteristic scarlet color. The valuable features of this type of strawberry are considered to be high drought and cold resistance, while the disadvantages are rather poor fruiting and low transportability. Significantly inferior in taste to wild strawberries. Virginia strawberries grow along the Atlantic coast to the west, to the Missouri River, to the north the growing area reaches the Gulf of Mexico and the Hudson Bay.

• Wild strawberry, common strawberry(Fragaria vesca)

The wild species, 5-30 cm high, gave rise to several varieties of selective strawberries (the cultivated species is alpine strawberry). An unpretentious plant that grows both in acidic, poor soils and in rich, slightly alkaline soils. Strawberry leaves are long-petiolate, pubescent below, with large pointed teeth. Bisexual white flowers are collected in few-flowered inflorescences. Wild strawberries are found in forest clearings, forest edges, and among bushes. The range covers the forest-steppe of central Russia, the Baltic countries, Ukraine, Belarus, as well as both American continents and North Africa. Widely used in folk medicine.

• Green strawberry, hilly strawberry or Polunitsa, meadow strawberry, steppe strawberry, wild strawberry (Fragaria viridis )

The plant is 5 to 20 cm high with thin stems and short tendrils. Oval or ovate leaves with blunt teeth along the edge below are densely pubescent. Strawberry flowers are white, bisexual, reaching 2 cm in diameter. The spherical strawberry fruits are small, 1-2 grams in weight, cherry-colored when fully ripe and pink-red with areas of white and green at the stage of technical maturity. They are separated from the stem along with the sepals; they are dense in consistency and have good transportability. The growing area of ​​wild strawberries covers Western Europe, the mountainous regions of Central Asia, Russia, in particular, Western and Eastern Siberia, and the Crimean Peninsula.

Strawberry classification

There are a huge number of strawberry varieties bred by breeders based on wild species. At the same time, both wild and cultivated species differ in the size of the fruits, on the basis of which the following is distinguished:

• large-fruited strawberry

It usually includes varieties of strawberries with berries, whose weight varies from 25 to 40 grams, and in some varieties reaches 65-100 grams.

Large-fruited strawberries include the following varieties: Aisha, Albion, Alpha, Amulet, Pineapple, White Swede, Black Swan, Brighton, Great Britain, Vikoda, Vima Xima, Gigantella, Giant Gemma, Jorneya, Darenka, Elizaveta-2, Geneva, Zephyr, Irishka , Calimiston, Kimberly, Clery, Consul, Queen Elizabeth, Lord, Maria, Mashenka, Honey Summer, Ottawa, Pineberry, Shelf, Summer Resident's Joy, Ruby Pendant, Sashenka, Sweet Tooth, Sonata, Sultan, Triploid, Tristar, Turidu, Felicia, Juan , Queen, Chamora Turusi, Charlotte, Eldorado and others.

• small-fruited strawberry

Small berries usually do not exceed a weight of 10-25 grams; in many varieties the berry weight is 4-5 g.

The best varieties of small-fruited strawberries: Alexandria, Ali Baba, Pineapple, Baron Solemacher, Snow White, White Soul, White Lotus, Weiss Solemacher, Seasons, Yellow Miracle, Yellow Cream, Zita and Gita, Zolotinka, Forest Tale, Marmaladnaya, Rügen, Regina , Ruyana, Sakhalinskaya, Sweet hearts.

Wild strawberries on the left and pineapple strawberries on the right. Photo credit: Per Ola Wiberg, CC BY 2.0

Strawberries are also distinguished by the color of their fruits, highlighting the berries:

• Red,
• yellow or whitish-cream color.

No less important is the classification of strawberries by ripening time:

• Early or early ripe strawberries,
• Mid-early strawberries,
• Mid-season strawberries,
• Mid-late strawberries,
• Late strawberries.

Despite this classification, it is usually not possible to indicate the timing of ripening with absolute accuracy up to several days: the fruits reach ripeness depending on the region in which the strawberries are planted and the climatic conditions during the growing season. However, the following months are considered to be the approximate ripening dates for strawberry berries:

• for early varieties - the end of May and the first ten days of June;
• for mid-early varieties - mid-June and the first ten days of July;
• for mid-season varieties – July;
• for mid-late varieties - late July and August;
• for late varieties - September, October, and in some regions November.

Below we describe strawberry varieties popular among gardeners, taking into account their classification.

Red and white (yellow) strawberries, varieties and photos

Red strawberry

• Strawberry Victoria

Mid-season variety, vigorous bush, glossy leaves, rich green color. The fruits are conical, bright red, with dense pulp and a strong aroma.

• Strawberry Albion

Brought in California, the variety is heat tolerant due to its large leaves. The berries are red-orange, cone-shaped, with a pleasant aroma. It is distinguished by its productivity and long fruiting period.

• Strawberry Temptation

The variety was bred by English breeders. Long peduncles allow this variety of strawberry to be used as an ornamental hanging plant. The fruits ripen not only on the peduncles, but also on the tendrils. The berries are red, very large, with a spicy nutmeg note.

White (yellow) strawberries

• Strawberry Yellow miracle

The bush is quite compact, up to 25 cm high. The berries are elongated, conical in shape, weighing 3-8 g, light yellow in color, with a light honey-pineapple aroma. On bushes planted in the shade, the fruits are white.

• Strawberry Weiss Solemacher

A beardless variety of early ripening type, the fruits are conical, yellowish-cream in color, sweet, with delicate pulp and a delicate aroma.

Taken from the site: cemkin.ru

Strawberry varieties by ripening period

Early varieties of strawberries, photos and names

• Strawberry Zephyr

Large-fruited variety, which was bred in Denmark. The bushes are powerful, tall, flowering abundantly. Under snow cover, the plant tolerates frosts down to -35 degrees, but in winters with little snow it dies at temperatures of -8-10 degrees. Strawberries are dark red, scallop-shaped and early ripening. The weight of strawberries can reach 15-35 g.

Beardless remontant strawberry with a compact, heavily pubescent bush up to 25 cm high. The berries are small, conical, bright carmine color with a glossy surface. The fruits of this early strawberry have a strong aroma.

• Strawberry Queen Elizabeth 2

This remontant strawberry variety was bred by Russian botanists. The berries are bright red in color; in the first wave of the harvest (early June) they may be irregular in shape; the second July harvest produces large, regular-shaped fruits. The pulp of the berries is dense, juicy, excellent for transportation and freezing.

Mid-early strawberry varieties, photos and names

• Strawberry Cinderella

The plant is compact and produces few tendrils. The leaves are large, dark green in color, covered with a waxy coating. Inflorescences are few-flowered, white. The berries are in the shape of a blunt cone, quite large, weighing from 23 to 40 g. The strawberry pulp is red-orange, dense, with a sweet and sour taste. High-yielding, winter-hardy variety.

• Strawberry Asia

The result of Italian selection. Bushes with strong roots can easily withstand harsh winters. The berries are bright red, conical, slightly flattened, very sweet.

• Strawberry Vima Kimberly

A plant with a powerful, tall (30-40 cm) bush. The leaves are rhombic, light green, with sharp teeth. The flowers of garden strawberries are white, the berries are red, with delicate sweet pulp, weighing up to 50 g.

Mid-season strawberry varieties, photos and names

It is a tall bush with a large rosette. The berries are bright red, conical, slightly flattened and grooved. The fruit pulp is juicy, with a pleasant taste, and quite dense. The weight of the berries of the first wave of the harvest reaches 45 g, the average weight of subsequent berries is from 10 to 25 g. This mid-season strawberry variety is shade-tolerant and is not afraid of frost.

• Strawberry Holiday

A tall, spreading, frost-resistant bush of beardless strawberries, the berries are round-conical, weighing up to 32 g in the first wave of the harvest, later becoming slightly smaller. The fruits are medium-sized, yellow in color, have a wonderful aroma and sweet taste. The plant reaches a height of 25-30 cm.

The bush of the plant is spherical in shape, with dark green ovate leaves. The berries are dark red, shiny, sweet and sour, with dense pulp, weighing on average 13 g.

Mid-late strawberry varieties, photos and names

• Strawberry Queen

A plant with large (up to 40 g), sweet and sour red berries. The variety is productive, resistant to frost and heat, and is little affected by fungal diseases and pests.

• Strawberry Gigantella Maxim

Large-fruited variety: the first wave of the harvest produces berries weighing up to 90-100 g, later the weight of the fruit decreases to 60-65 g. The berries are bright scarlet in color, juicy, but with a rather dense consistency.

• Strawberry Roxana

The bushes are compact, of medium height. The fruits are red or dark red, large, with a slightly shiny surface. Strawberries have a bright aroma and excellent taste.

Late varieties of strawberries, photos and names

• Strawberry Vikoda

Valued for its ease of care (no mustache) and unpretentiousness to temperature conditions. The berries are large, red, with dense pulp, so they are ideal for transportation.

• Strawberry Mitze Schindler

The berries are medium in size, with a unique taste and aroma. The variety is undemanding to watering, lighting and temperature conditions. The plant is resistant to fungal diseases.

• Strawberry variety Malvina

Produces large, sweet, bright cherry-colored berries. The variety is resistant to diseases, is not affected by powdery mildew, and almost never rots. Resistant to rain and drought. The height of the bushes reaches 40 cm. The weight of large-fruited strawberries reaches 20-25 g.

Most of us know how pleasant it is to enjoy delicious tea with aromatic jam made from wild strawberries or garden strawberries on cold winter evenings. But not everyone knows what their difference is. Many people are accustomed to thinking that strawberries are wild berries and they grow only on the edges of mixed forests. They count strawberries noble garden berry. Is this really true? Let’s try to figure out what is the difference between these wonderful berries and what beneficial properties they have.

Forest beauty strawberry

The fruits of wild strawberries have some similarities with garden strawberries. This type of strawberry usually grows on dry forest slopes.

The plant needs abundant sunlight and therefore, where there is enough of it, the berries will be larger and juicier. The peak of its flowering occurs in May or June. The berry has many beneficial properties and qualities, here are some of them:

• They perfectly comfort your thirst.
• Improves digestive processes.
• Stimulates appetite.
• Dried fruits are used for colds.
• They are also used as decoctions for inflammatory processes of the gastrointestinal tract.
• The flowers of this plant are used in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

You can give many more examples in which the medicinal properties of this berry are used. In fact, this is not only a healthy berry, but also very tasty. Children will be able to appreciate its taste. Many housewives use it in various preparations. In dried form, it is useful for preparing various decoctions and infusions.

Jam or jam from wild strawberries will become an indispensable delicacy on the table. Some people use the berry to prepare alcoholic drinks; for example, it makes a wonderful liqueur.

This berry a little larger his brother. Moreover, it has a wonderful sweet taste, although, unlike wild strawberries, it is not so fragrant. The berry has a bright color and large shape.

You can grow strawberries in almost any corner of our country. Like the forest beauty, she loves sunlight and loose sandy soil. It is not fussy to care for, but needs plenty of watering. It has many useful qualities in addition to being a wonderful delicacy.

• With its help, you can remove unnecessary toxins from the human body.
• It will also replenish iodine deficiency.
• Perfectly quenches thirst.
• Improves memory.
• Strengthens the heart muscle.
• Will reduce cholesterol levels.
• Can eliminate intestinal disorders.
• Will lower sugar levels.

Garden strawberries have a very wide range of effects on the human body. You can also talk about it for a long time. Housewives use not only the fruits for various preparations, but also the flowers and leaves of this berry.

The main differences between garden strawberries and wild strawberries

1. Real strawberry very rarely can grow in summer cottages. This berry can often be found on forest edges, clearings, and even among thickets of various shrubs. She is very moisture-loving and prefers more shaded places. While strawberries will not thrive in the shade, they constantly need sunlight.
2. There is also such a difference between these berries as sexual. For example, garden strawberries are usually unisexual. The wild strawberry is divided into male and female inflorescences. Thus, the berries also have external differences. Homemade, that is, garden strawberries have a wide, fat leaf and large fruits of various shapes depending on the variety. Wild berries are much smaller. But at the same time it has a more pronounced taste and aroma.
3. Another difference between this wonderful berry is frost resistance. Growing in forests and steppes, strawberries can withstand severe frosts and snowfalls. Homemade berry varieties are more finicky and require constant care. So many gardeners cover it with tops, leaves or sawdust during the winter in order to protect it from death when frozen.
4. Berries are also affected in the same way. hot weather. In extreme heat, wild strawberry leaves wither and can burn, just like the berries. She prefers shady places and less intense heat. Garden berries will withstand any hot weather well and will not wilt; with abundant watering under such temperature conditions, they will only ripen better.
5. The only similarity between these varieties of berries is reproduction, and in both the first and second cases it occurs through the mustache. Only in nature it happens randomly, but at home it can be adjusted.

Use of berries and leaves in folk medicine

It's no secret that folk remedies are often the most effective. The leaves and fruits of wild strawberries and garden strawberries are used equally widely in folk medicine. A healing infusion is prepared from the berries, which acts as a general tonic.

Strawberries, wild strawberries and their leaves have multiple properties, which are not only tasty, but full of vitamins. Jam can be consumed by both adults and children. In some cases, these berries can cause allergies. The leaves, which contain beneficial substances, are practically not contraindicated for anyone.

Wonderful berries, both wild strawberries and garden strawberries, are probably known to almost everyone in our country and far beyond its borders. It’s worth putting a little effort into collecting and caring for it at home, and every housewife will have an excellent medicinal and tasty remedy that helps against most diseases all year round.