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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Iturup Strawberry
| image = FragariaIturupensis.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Rosales]]
| familia = [[Rosaceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Rosoideae]]
| genus = ''[[Strawberry|Fragaria]]''
| species = '''''F. iturupensis'''''
| binomial = ''Fragaria iturupensis''
| binomial_authority = [[Staudt]]
}}

The '''Iturup Strawberry''' (''Fragaria iturupensis'') is a species of [[strawberry]], [[endemic (ecology)|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 [[polyploidy|octoploid]], having eight pairs of these chromosomes for a total of 56.

==References and external links==
*Hummer, K.E., Sabitov, A., & Davis, T. 2005. Iturup And Sakhalin Island Strawberries. ''Hortscience'' 40(4): 1127. [http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=177440 Abstract].
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?317933 Iturup Strawberry data from GRIN Taxonomy Database]

[[Category:Fragaria]]

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