Iturup Strawberry

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Iturup Strawberry
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Plant Info
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Subfamily: Rosoideae
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 octoploid, having eight pairs of these chromosomes for a total of 56.

References and external links

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