In 2017, world production of strawberries was 9. 2 million tonnes, led by China with 40% of the total. The first garden strawberry was grown in Brittany, France, during the late 18th century. The introduction of F. virginiana from Eastern North America to Europe in the 17th century is an important part of history.
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In 2017, world production of strawberries was 9. 2 million tonnes, led by China with 40% of the total. The first garden strawberry was grown in Brittany, France, during the late 18th century. The introduction of F. virginiana from Eastern North America to Europe in the 17th century is an important part of history because it is one of the two species that give rise to the modern strawberry. The fruit is widely appreciated for its characteristic aroma, bright red color, juicy texture, and sweetness. It is consumed in large quantities, either fresh or in such prepared foods as jam, juice, pies, ice cream, milkshakes, and chocolates. Artificial strawberry flavorings and aromas are also widely used in products such as candy, soap, lip gloss, perfume, and many others. The strawberry is not, from a botanical point of view, a berry. Technically, it is an aggregate accessory fruit, meaning that the fleshy part is derived not from the plant’s ovaries but from the receptacle that holds the ovaries. In the early 15th century western European monks were using the wild strawberry in their illuminated manuscripts. The combination of strawberries and cream was created by Thomas Wolsey in the court of King Henry VIII. The entire strawberry plant was used to treat depressive illnesses. By the 16th century, references of cultivation of the strawberry became more common. People began using it for its supposed medicinal properties and botanists began naming the different species. The new species gradually spread through the continent and did not become completely appreciated until the end of the 18th Century.
In 1712, a French excursion journeyed to Chile in 1712 introduced a strawberry plant with female flowers that resulted in the common strawberry that we have today. The Garden Strawberry is a widely grown hybrid species of the genus Fragaria, collectively known as the strawberries, which are cultivated worldwide for their fruit. The garden strawberry is a hybrid of Fragaria virginiana and Fragaria chiloensis, which was brought from Chile by Amédée-François Frézier in 1714. It has replaced, in commercial production, the woodland strawberry, which is the first strawberry species cultivated in the early 17thcentury. The woodland strawberry was transplanted from the forests and then the plants would be propagated asexually by cutting off the runners. The French began taking the strawberry from the forest to their gardens for harvest in the 14th century and Charles V, France’s king from 1364 to 1380, had 1,200 strawberry plants in his royal garden. In 1578, instructions for growing and harvesting strawberries showed up in writing in 1578. The wild strawberries and cultivated selections from wild strawberry species were the common source of the fruit. In. the late 1700s, the Mapuche and Huilliche Indians of Chile cultivated the female strawberry species until 1551, when the Spanish came to conquer the land. Two subspecies of F vesca were identified: F. sylvestris alba and F. syLvestris semperflorens.
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