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Fragaria iturupensis

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Iturup Strawberry
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Fragaria
Species: F. iturupensis
Binomial name
Fragaria iturupensis
Staudt

The Iturup Strawberry (Fragaria iturupensis) is a species of strawberry, endemic to Iturup in the Kuril Islands. It is noted to have relatively large berries for a wild species, similar in appearance to those of Fragaria virginiana. .

Polyploidy

All strawberries have a base haploid count of 7 chromosomes. Fragaria iturupensis is decaploid, thus it has ten (10) pairs of these chromosomes for a total of 70.

References

  1. Hummer, K.E., Sabitov, A., & Davis, T. 2005. Iturup And Sakhalin Island Strawberries. Hortscience 40(4): 1127. Abstract
  2. Iturup Strawberry data from GRIN Taxonomy Database
  3. ^ ANNUAL REPORT FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2008 USDA ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repositor www.ars.usda.gov

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Strawberries
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Hybrids: F. × ananassa
F. × bringhurstii
F. × vescana
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See also
 Category: Strawberries
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