What is a purple strawberry?

Scientists aren't content to let nature rest on its laurels when it comes to the strawberry. Cornell University horticulturists have announced that they've bred a new type of strawberry called the Purple Wonder designed to stun with both its taste and its color — a deep burgundy.
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Are purple strawberries a real thing?

Purple Strawberries

Purple Wonder – “purple” strawberries do indeed exist. Again, these are not the photoshopped fakies presented on eBay. The first real purple strawberry was released by Burpee a few years ago.
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Are purple strawberries edible?

In fact, the color goes through the entire berry unlike the common red strawberry, which is actually white inside. Apparently, this deeper hue makes them an excellent choice for making into strawberry wine and preserves, plus their high antioxidant content makes them a healthy choice.
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What is the rarest strawberry?

The white strawberry is mainly found in Japan, where it's a fixture within the luxury fruit market. There are several varieties of the special fruit in the Asian country, but the most popular type is the White Jewel, or Shiroi Houseki, which is the rarest and most expensive among them all.
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What are the 3 types of strawberries?

3 Basic Types of Strawberries
  • 1 • June-Bearing Strawberry Varieties. June-bearing varieties initiate fruit buds in fall and blossom the following spring. ...
  • 2 • Everbearing (Day-Neutral) Strawberry Varieties. Day-neutral varieties produce fruit all summer, hence their alternate name, everbearing. ...
  • 3 • Alpine Strawberries.
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What is the sweetest strawberry?

The Alpine Strawberry (Fragaria vesca) is one of the sweetest fruits you can grow. Although they produce a small fruit, they are incredibly sweet and are easy to grow.
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How many colors of strawberries are there?

Can Strawberries be Different Colors? There are some instances where strawberries do not grow in their typical red color. Uniquely colored strawberries have been around for a few decades. These include white, pink, yellow, and golden berries.
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Do black strawberries exist?

Is There Such a Thing as a Black Strawberry? No, there are no actual black strawberries on the market. It turns out that these so-called “black strawberries” for sale online are just skillfully photoshopped to make them look jet-black.
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Do blue strawberries exist?

The real truth about blue strawberries, according to Snopes, is that they are a hoax that owes their existence, as well as their striking blue color, to Photoshop's "replace color" tool rather than to nature.
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What is a black strawberry?

In China the so-called black strawberry was bred, and its seeds can be freely obtained via the internet. In reality, its fruit aren't black but very dark violet instead. It is remarkable that no genetic modifications were used in creating this breed.
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Do pink strawberries exist?

The newest varietal from Driscoll's similar to the Dutch pineberry. Here the pinpoint seeds are red and the flesh - inside and outside - is off white/pink. A most unusal surprise with a light, sweet, strawberry flavor; gorgeous served with any chocolate.
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Are white strawberries real?

Despite the pale color, white strawberries are bred to be sweeter and softer than conventional strawberries. While about 50 varieties of these white strawberries are grown, the most well-known one is the White Jewel variety developed by Yasuhito Teshima at his farm in Japan.
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Are yellow strawberries real?

Small, yellow, flavorful alpine strawberry. Considered one of the best gourmet strawberries, Yellow Wonder has delightful aroma and fantastic flavor. Lacking the red color that attracts birds, fruits are spared, leaving more delicious harvests.
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What is a golden strawberry?

Golden Strawberry, a 50/50 hybrid grown from Kosher OG and Strawberry Banana, produces a peaceful and tension-relieving high popular for treating a variety of mild symptoms.
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Why is my strawberry purple?

Scientists aren't content to let nature rest on its laurels when it comes to the strawberry. Cornell University horticulturists have announced that they've bred a new type of strawberry called the Purple Wonder designed to stun with both its taste and its color — a deep burgundy.
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Are rainbow colored strawberries real?

Blue strawberries do not exist, and before you ask, neither do the black ones, or the spectacular rainbow ones. If you are looking for fake seeds of any kind – Ebay is a great place to loose some money.
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Are there green strawberries?

Green strawberries are simply the unripened version of these same berries. While they should not be confused, there is a variety of strawberry native to Europe, known as Fragaria viridis, which lacks the traditional strawberry aroma and does not always turn color when ripe.
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What colour were strawberries originally?

Styles, like most, would perhaps be aghast to learn that strawberries are not in fact berries due to some strict definitions. But watermelons are, so it seems he still got his wish. And before you get bogged down on that one, here's another fact: strawberries were once white (and some were even yellow).
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Are pink strawberries GMO?

And while the lighter pink color made some think they weren't ripe, it's intentional—they're meant to be "blush colored." To answer a few burning questions, no, there is no alcohol in these bad boys. And, no, they're not genetically modified.
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What are pine strawberries?

What are Pineberries? Pineberries are descendants of the strawberries native to North America, Fragaria virginiana, and strawberries native to Chile, Fragaria chiloensis. They are not genetically modified, nor are they somehow a cross between a pineapple and a strawberry.
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Why are the seeds on my strawberry black?

The fungal pathogen that causes the disease called leaf spot does not infect only the foliage of strawberry. On fruit the symptoms of leaf spot are often referred to as black seed disease. The initial symptom is black seed, next the tissue around the seed (receptacle tissue) becomes infected and turns brown.
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What are pink strawberries?

Awayuki strawberries obtain their unusual pink-hue from the natural process of restricting sunlight during cultivation. As the strawberries develop without normal levels of sunlight, the colored pigment responsible for the fruit's signature red hue, anthocyanins, is reduced, creating light pink fruits.
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Where does blue strawberries come from?

The Arctic Flounder Fish produces an anti-freeze that allows it to protect himself in freezing waters. They isolated the gene that produces this anti-freeze and introduced it to the strawberry. The result is a strawberry that looks blue and doesn't turn to mush or degrade after being placed in the freezer.
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What are Japanese strawberries?

There are four major kinds of strawberry grown on Japanese soil: Sagahonoka strawberries from Saga Prefecture, Benihoppe strawberries from Shizuoka Prefecture, Tochiotome strawberries from Tochigi Prefecture, and Amaou strawberries from Fukuoka Prefecture.
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Does every strawberry have 200 seeds?

Each seed is considered by botanists to be its own separate fruit. The average strawberry has 200 seeds. Most strawberry plants reproduce from runners despite the fact that seeds can grow into plants. The strawberry plant is a perennial.
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