Yellow-flowered Strawberry
Scientific name: Duchesnea indica (Jacks.) Focke
Diagnostic features Stolons to 50cm, slender, bearing ternate leaves and solitary axillary flowers on erect pedicels 3-10cm. Flowers c.10-18mm across. Fruit ± globose, 8-16mm across, not juicy, tasteless.
Chromosome number: (2n=42, 84).
Habitat Introduced-naturalized; cultivated as curiosity and occasionally escapes into shady places.
Distribution Very scattered in Britain;South & East Asia.
This species is keyed out on Page 2302: Duchesnea & Fragaria in the Text Key. |