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The following is a partial list of strawberry cultivars.
Strawberries The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry; ''Fragaria × ananassa'') is a widely grown hybrid plant cultivated worldwide for its fruit. The genus ''Fragaria'', the strawberries, is in the rose family, Rosaceae. The fruit is appreciated f ...
come in a wide assortment of commercially available
cultivar A cultivar is a kind of Horticulture, cultivated plant that people have selected for desired phenotypic trait, traits and which retains those traits when Plant propagation, propagated. Methods used to propagate cultivars include division, root a ...
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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and East Malling Research Station in the UK. Almost all the strawberries listed below are cultivars of ''Fragaria'' × ''ananassa''. Two cultivars listed here ('Frel' () and 'Samba' ()) are bigeneric hybrids, grown mainly for their flower colour rather than their fruit, using a closely related species (''Potentilla palustris'' = '' Comarum palustre'') 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.Plant Research International B.V.
/ref> Cultivar names should be shown in single quotes. Names shown in 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.


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Garden Strawberry The garden strawberry (or simply strawberry; ''Fragaria × ananassa'') is a widely grown hybrid plant cultivated worldwide for its fruit. The genus ''Fragaria'', the strawberries, is in the rose family, Rosaceae. The fruit is appreciated ...
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