Fragaria Mara Des Bois Strawberry
It was like eating a strawberry while smelling perfume.
Fragaria mara des bois strawberry. It definitely tasted different but it was not a flavor anyone i gave it to particularly liked. Red gauntlet x f. Tall 30 45 cm and 18 24 in. Mara des bois was supposed to be the strawberry to try with rave reviews talking about complex flavors.
Mara des bois was hybridized in soings en sologne france in 1991 by strawberry breeder jacques marionnet in a planned breeding program involving a cross of f. Wild strawberry mara des bois alpine strawberry mara des bois fraise des bois mara des bois wood strawberry mara des bois grows up to 12 18 in. I found it to have a pretty strong floral taste that i did not like. Over 15 million strawberry mara de bois plants are bought in france each year increasing home grown harvests by 10 000 tonnes every summer.
Genus name comes from the latin word fraga meaning strawberry presumably from fragrans meaning fragrant in reference to the perfume of the fruit. Despite various claims mara des bois is not a wild strawberry or an antique variety. Alpine strawberry mara des bois other common names alpine strawberry mara des bois synonyms fragaria ananassa m ara d es b ois fragaria mara des bois family rosaceae genus fragaria are stoloniferous perennials with leaves composed of three leaflets and rounded white or pink flowers. This unique variety combines modern vigour and the cropping potential of commercial varieties with the intense aromatic flavours of woodland and alpine varieties.