The Strasberry or ''Fragaria × ananassa'' 'Mieze Schindler' is a variety of the

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 ...

, with a

raspberry The raspberry is the edible fruit of several plant species in the genus ''Rubus'' of the Rosaceae, rose family, most of which are in the subgenus ''Rubus#Modern classification, Idaeobatus''. The name also applies to these plants themselves. Ras ...

-like appearance, originally developed by the German breeder Otto Schindler in 1925. It is similarly soft textured, with characteristics that are similar to raspberries, such as being a deeper red, being rounder and having a bumpy exterior. They are also smaller than an average garden strawberry and have deeper achenes. Unlike other garden strawberry varieties, 'Mieze Schindler' produces no fertile pollen and will need a pollinator. Despite its much-valued flavor, the variety was threatened by extinction, but plants survived in amateur gardens in the former

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until they were reintroduced as a commercial variety by a Dutch farmer in the twenty-first century. Since 2013, a hybrid, self-pollinating version of this strawberry has been marketed under the new trade name Framberry."List of Strawberry Cultivars." ''Kiddle Encyclopedia'', n.d. Accessed April 30, 2025.

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{{fragaria Strawberry cultivars