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Fragaria nipponica is a small perennial wild strawberry from Japan, grown mainly for its edible fruit and as a ground cover. It does best in cool, moist, well-drained conditions with some light shade.
Fragaria nipponica is a species of wild strawberry in the family Rosaceae. It is native to the western side of the Japanese island of Honshū, with a variety Fragaria nipponica var. yakusimensis on Yakushima. Some botanists treat it as a synonym of Fragaria yezoensis.
All strawberries have a base haploid count of 7 chromosomes. Fragaria nipponica is diploid, having 2 pairs of these chromosomes for a total of 14 chromosomes.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Fragaria nipponica by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
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