Strawberry Varieties

During our class discussion yesterday, we talked about different varieties of apples and tomatoes. That got me wondering if there was such a thing as a "type" of strawberry. I always thought the same one's I ate at my house were the same ones everyone else across the country was eating. Then I remembered that long stemmed strawberries were popular around Valentine's Day for dipping into chocolate.

With at least one other variety of strawberry in mind, I decided to research and find out how many different varieties of strawberries there actually are. In this particular article I found, there are over 30 different types of strawberries! They vary from what kind of soil they can grow in, to resistance to particular diseases. Who knew there were so many varieties! The article also said that new varieties are being created every year. So biotechnical engineering also pops up in this fruit. I wonder if anything has not been bio-engineered?

I was going to just copy the list into this post...but that would clearly take up pages. Here is the link to the article. http://gardening.about.com/od/fruitsberriesnuts/a/Strawberries.htm

Meet Clancy. A new strawberry developed by Cornell University. (Looks pretty standard to me!)