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Strawberries
we exoprt Strawberries and fresh Fruits exporter and Vegetables from Morocco
( fraises
, fresas , Erdbeeren , fragole )

The strawberries
is an accessory fruit; that is, the fleshy part is derived
not from the ovaries (which are the "seeds", actually
achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the hypanthium
that held the ovaries. So from a technical standpoint, the
seeds of strawberries are the actual fruits of the plant,
and the flesh of the strawberry is modified receptacle tissue.
It is greenish-white as it develops and in most species turns
red when ripe.
The rosette growth of the strawberries are a
well-known characteristic. Most species send out long slender
runners that produce a new bud and roots at the extremity,
allowing the plant to spread vegetatively. The leaves typically
have three leaflets, but the number of leaflets may be five
or one.
While the flower of strawberries has the typical
rosaceous structure, the fruit is very peculiar, but it may
be understood by the contrast it presents with the rose hip
of the rose. In a rose the top of the flower-stalk expands
as it grows into a vase-shaped cavity, the hip, within which
are concealed the true fruits or seed-vessels. In the rose
the extremity of the floral of strawberries axis is concave
and bears the carpels in its interior. In the strawberry,
the receptacle (floral axis), instead of being concave, swells
out into a fleshy, dome-shaped or flattened mass in which
the achenes or true fruits, commonly called pips or seeds,
are more or less embedded but never wholly concealed. A ripe
strawberry in fact may be aptly compared to the fruit of a
rose turned inside out
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