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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

PIcs of the leaves & the fruit are at the bottom of the page at the
link that Naomi posted:

http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/search.pl?accid=%20PI+551842



On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us> wrote:
> Where did you see a picture?
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> I was in Germany this year during strawberry season, and I was interested 
> to see that German strawberries have a different shape than American 
> strawberries. Oh, and they were delicious. They also command a large 
> premium in the (German) market over the larger, flavorless imports that 
> they also get from sunnier parts of the EU, like Spain. My guess is that 
> good strawberries will always be local strawberries, as good strawberries 
> don't travel well.
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> Ginda
> Eastern MA, zone 6
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> On Aug 30, 2011, at 8:36 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
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>> Ah, yes, I read too quickly.  Thanks for the correction.
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>> The pic of the berries makes them look kind of irregular & misshapen.
>> Perhaps another reason why it fell out of commercial appeal. The ones
>> in the photo anyway don't have the characteristic strawberry shape.
>>
>> ~mIEKAL
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>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> mIEKAL, she said that NCGR sent her *a runner* from one of the 3 plants
>>> they had.
>>>
>>> Doug Woodard
>>> St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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