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Fragaria chiloensis

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Noun1.Fragaria chiloensis - wild strawberry of western United States and South America; source of many varieties of cultivated strawberries
Fragaria, genus Fragaria - strawberries
strawberry - any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible fruits having many small achenes scattered on the surface of an enlarged red pulpy berry


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The familiar cultivated strawberry is actually an accidental hybrid of two species: Fragaria virginiana, from the eastern seaboard states, and Fragaria chiloensis, a native of Chile.
 
 
 
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