Fragaria moschata
Grote bosaardbei / Musk strawberry
Rosaceae (Rozenfamilie)Edible plant part (2)
Fruits,
leaves
Read 'form of consumption' for safe preparation methods
Musk strawberry belongs to the herbacious layer in the food forest. In the process of ecological succession it is an early species. The growth rate is fast. Fully grown the plant has an average height of 0.15 to 0.3 meter .
This species forms a fibrous root system. This species is slightly spreading in the food forest. Musk strawberry is no nitrogen fixer.
foto: Petr Filippov, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fragaria_moschata_20.jpg
foto: Petr Filippov, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fragaria_moschata_20.jpg
foto: Dendrofil, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fragaria_moschata_fructus1.JPG
Growth factors
- Frost (whole plant)
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very strong frostcold frostmild frostlight frostno frost
- Light
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full sunlight shadehalf shadefairly deep shadedeep shade
- Soil texture
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sandloamlight clayheavy claypeat
- Soil moisture
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inundationwetmoistdrydrought
- Soil acidity
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very acidacidslightly acidneutralalkaline
- Soil fertility
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very richrichaveragepoorvery poor
Flowering and pollination
- Flowering period (peak)
- early may
- Flowering period (length)
- several months
- Pollination vector
- insects
- Plant reproductive fertility
- self-fertile (sf)
Life Span and Plant Health
Harvest and Consumption
Fruits
Leaves
- Harvesting period - start
- End of june
- Form of consumption
- Fresh, processed
- Harvesting period - start
- Early march
- Size edible parts
- Small
- Form of consumption
- Fresh, processed