Bit of Strawberry help please

[davidbr]

I would welcome some advice on this one, photographed as a weed in a Bristol suburban cemetery back in July. I'd originally labelled it as Garden Strawberry, Fragaria ananassa, but it just doesn't seem right for that - in fact the closest match I can find is Hautbois Strawberry, F. moschata, but I'd thought that was pretty much unknown these days, even in cultivation?

[Kayleigh]

Hi, I don't know if this is the same it was taken by Ron1863

Wild Strawberry - Fragaria vesca - Wildlife Photography

[davidbr]

I don't think it's the basic Wild Strawberry (Fragaria vesca) - the fruit looks too large for that, and from the location it's almost certain it's a garden escape of some kind - there are certainly no other wild strawberries growing probably within five miles.

At first I thought it was just an unhealthy Garden Strawberry (F. ananassa) bird-sown from the gardens that back onto the cemetery, but now I'm just not sure...

[leifus]

garden strawberry

the flower and whole plant is too big for wild strawberry and the flower isnt right for barren strawberry

[Tiggrx]

I have Hautbois Strawberries in my garden and they don't look like this.

The fruits looks rather like the Alpine Strawberry (Fragaria vesca var. semperflorens).

[Cotham Marble]

Originally Posted by Tiggrx

I have Hautbois Strawberries in my garden and they don't look like this.

The fruits looks rather like the Alpine Strawberry (Fragaria vesca var. semperflorens).

Yes: Alpine Strawberry

CM

[leifus]

Originally Posted by Cotham Marble

Yes: Alpine Strawberry

CM

so alpine strawberrys don't grow in upland areas then?

[Tiggrx]

Originally Posted by leifus

so alpine strawberrys don't grow in upland areas then?

As a wild plant they do. They are native to various parts of the Alps, but are very widely cultivated and any plants found in the UK would be a stray from a garden.

[davidbr]

Thanks, Tiggrx (& Cotham Marble for the second opinion ), for suggesting Alpine Strawberry - it seems to match my plant perfectly, but before I posted the picture on here I'd never heard of it

It's kind of a shame it's only a variety, because I can't now add it as a "bonus extra" to my database list, but I'd all but convinced myself I'd found a Hautbois Strawberry so at least I've been saved from an embarrassing mistake