Musk strawberry

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Musk strawberries grow wild to a limited extent in the forests of Central Europe, north into Scandinavia, and east into Russia.{{cite magazine|last1=Goodyear|first1=Dana|title=Strawberry Valley|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/how-driscolls-reinvented-the-strawberry/amp|accessdate=16 August 2017|magazine=The New Yorker|date=14 August 2017}} The musk strawberry is found growing along the edges of forests and requires moist and sheltered sites since they do not tolerate temperature fluctuations.{{citation needed|date=May 2014}}

All strawberries have a base haploid count of 7 chromosomes. Fragaria moschata is usually hexaploid, having three pairs of these chromosomes for a total of 42 chromosomes,{{cite journal | year=2006 | pages=399–415 | issue=5 | publisher=Taylor & Francis | volume=25 | first1=Kevin M. | last2=Davis | last1=Folta | first2=Thomas M. | title=Strawberry Genes and Genomics | journal=Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences | issn=0735-2689 | doi=10.1080/07352680600824831 | bibcode=2006CRvPS..25..399F | s2cid=83989078}} but due to its history of several chromosomal duplication events may be a diploid of 2n = 28, 35, 42, or 56.{{cite journal | title=Chromosome Rearrangements and Transposable Elements | journal=Annual Review of Genetics | publisher=Annual Reviews | last1=Lönnig | first1=Wolf-Ekkehard | last2=Saedler | first2=Heinz | volume=36 | issue=1 | year=2002 | issn=0066-4197 | doi=10.1146/annurev.genet.36.040202.092802 | pages=389–410}}

Musk strawberry has long been in cultivation in parts of Europe. This species was the first strawberry of any sort with a cultivar name, which was Le Chapiron (1576).{{cite book | title = Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden | first = Lee | last= Reich | publisher = Timber Press | isbn = 0-88192-623-X | year = 2004 | pages = 34–35}} By 1591, the cultivar was called Chapiton, then later Capiton. In the early 17th century an illustration appeared in the Hortus Eystettensis as fraga fructu magno. It was mentioned by Quintinye, gardener to Louis XIV, as Capron in 1672. At the beginning of the 19th century musk strawberries were the most common garden strawberry in Germany.Wachsmuth, Brigitte: Von Monats-, Wald- und Moschuserdbeeren 20-28. In: Gartenpraxis 35 4/2009

Cultivation of musk strawberries is similar to that of garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) or alpine strawberry (Fragaria vesca); the plants thrive in nutrient-rich soils. However, neither female plants nor hermaphroditic plants are self-fertile; they require pollen transfer from a male or a clone of a different hermaphroditic cultivar of the same species, which is usually achieved by insect pollinators.

Cultivars:

• 'Capron royal', hermaphrodite
• 'Askungen' (Truedsson) hermaphrodite
• 'Marie Charlotte' (Hans) hermaphrodite
• 'Bauwens', female
• 'Capron', female
• 'Profumata di Tortona', female
• 'Siegerland', female
• 'Cotta', male

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• {{PFAF|Fragaria moschata}}
• [http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/rosa/fraga/fragmos.html Den Virtuella Floran] Swedish site with good photos of F. moschata.
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120617045025/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/strawberry.html Berried Treasure] Smithsonian article on F. moschata

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Category:Plants described in 1766