''Fragaria nilgerrensis'' is a species of
wild strawberry native to southern and southeast
Asia
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. Its fruit are white to light pink, with poor flavour, and the fruit is of no commercial value.
[G.M. Darrow, The Strawberry: History, Breeding and Physiology. page 113](_blank)
/ref> It is similar in appearance to '' F. moupinensis''.
All strawberries have a base haploid
Ploidy () is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes. Sets of chromosomes refer to the number of maternal and paternal chromosome copies, respectively ...
count of 7 chromosomes
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. ''Fragaria nilgerrensis'' is diploid
Ploidy () is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes. Sets of chromosomes refer to the number of maternal and paternal chromosome copies, respectively ...
, having 2 pairs of these chromosomes for a total of 14 chromosomes.
References
External links
G.M. Darrow, The Strawberry: History, Breeding and Physiology. Online version, chapter 8.
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nilgerrensis
Plants described in 1857