List of strawberry cultivars
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The following is a partial list of strawberry cultivars. Strawberries come in a wide assortment of commercially available
cultivar A cultivar is a type of cultivated plant that people have selected for desired traits and when propagated retain those traits. Methods used to propagate cultivars include: division, root and stem cuttings, offsets, grafting, tissue culture ...
s (cultivated varieties). Differences between cultivars may include the date the fruit ripens, disease resistance, freezing quality, firmness, berry size, berry shape, and flavor. Many different cultivars have been developed at the
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(Davis campus), by Driscoll Strawberry Associates Inc. (Watsonville, California), the
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in the UK. Almost all the strawberries listed below are cultivars of ''Fragaria'' × ''ananassa''. Two cultivars listed here ('Frel' (Pink Panda) and 'Samba' (Red Ruby)) are bigeneric hybrids, grown mainly for their flower colour rather than their fruit, using a closely related species (''Potentilla palustris'' = ''
Comarum palustre ''Comarum palustre'' ( syn. ''Potentilla palustris''), known by the common names purple marshlocks, swamp cinquefoil and marsh cinquefoil, is a common waterside shrub. It has a circumboreal distribution, occurring throughout North America, Europe, ...
'') to introduce pink or red colouration to the flowers. The cultivar ''Fragaria'' × ''ananassa'' 'Variegata' is grown mainly for the decorative qualities of its variegated foliage.


Table

This table includes a list of strawberry cultivars that are commercially available.Indiana Berry & Plant Co. - All Strawberry Varieties
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/ref> Cultivar names should be shown in single quotes. Names shown in Small Capitals are trade designations, or "selling names", used in certain countries (with the cultivar name shown alongside); the same cultivar may be sold under a different trade designation in other countries.


References

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Garden Strawberry The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry; ''Fragaria × ananassa'') is a widely grown hybrid species of the genus ''Fragaria'', collectively known as the strawberries, which are cultivated worldwide for their fruit. The fruit is widely ap ...
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