Fragaria Mara Des Bois
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Fragaria mara des bois. Unfortunately picked berries have a shelf life of only 5 days which is fine for home production or for local sales but way too short a time for commercial production and shipment. Fragaria x ananassa mara des bois is an alpine strawberry but its fruits are equal in size to modern cultivars. White flowers from late spring through summer are followed by crops of highly fragrant small to medium sized conical fruit. Noted for its incredibly sweet and tasty fruits fragaria vesca mara des bois wild strawberry is a stoloniferous spreading perennial forming rosettes of tri foliate coarsely toothed bright green leaves.
Mara des bois is a stoloniferous alpine strawberry forming rosettes of three lobed leaves with coarsely toothed leaflets. By reputation mara des bois has the best flavor and fragrance of any strawberry currently in cultivation. A highly productive day neutral everbearer mara des bois produces a steady and reliable crop of small to medium sized berries with the most exquisite tart sweet wonderful mouth watering flavor with aftertastes of dark chocolate vanilla and wild strawberry. In late spring and throughout the summer it bears a profusion of small 5 petaled white flowers adorned with yellow centers.
Plant in spring in pots or in the ground. Probably the best and most delicious of all modern hybrid strawberries.