Photos: Castletownsend, Co.Cork |
Yellow-flowered Strawberry Solitary yellow flowers, 5 petals. Surrounded by 3-toothed epicalyx-segments, larger than sepals. Fruit is a spongy red berry, edible but tasteless. Evergreen leaves, 3-lobed, rough-veined underneath, toothed. Self-fertile. Creeping stolons, rooting at nodes. Spreads rapidly to 1m+. Grows in sun or partial shade. Originally from SE Asia, sometimes sold as a garden plant. Infrequent garden escape. |