Strawberry Plant Structure
What is a strawberry plant?
Strawberry plants are low-growing herbaceous perennials.
Strawberry plants are from the rose family (Rosaceae), including apples, peaches, plums, and cherries.
Strawberry plants propagate from above-ground daughter plants.
Did you know that the fleshy, edible strawberry "fruit" isn't technically a berry?!
It is considered an accessory fruit; the fleshy part is derived from modified receptacle tissue from the base of the flower.
The “seeds” (achenes) are actual “fruit."
There are six essential parts of a strawberry plant:
Root system: a part of a plant that is underground. Its primary functions are to anchor the plant in the ground, absorb water and dissolved minerals, bring water and minerals to the stem, and store reserve foods.
Crown: the shortened stem of the strawberry plant, where all leaves, inflorescences, stolons, and roots emerge from.
Trifoliate leaf: the leaf shape is characterized by a leaf divided into three leaflets.
Inflorescence (flower truss, fruit): a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem.
Stolon (runner): the horizontal growing (creeping) leafless stems on which the daughter plants emerge.
Daughter: a new strawberry plant is produced on a stolon of a mother plant.
