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Fragaria × ananassa (the strawberries we get in the grocery store)
are sterile hybrids.
you wouldn't get a plant if you planted 100 seeds.

>>5043972
:( Do they make them sterile so we can't plant our own!??

>>5043974
most non-hybridized strawberries are pretty.....difficult, culinarily.
>Sweet
>Large
pick one.

>>5043980
Does hybridization result in them being sterile?

>>5043984
Hybridization makes most everything sterile.
ligers are sterile. so are Beefalos and Camas.

>>5043991
Hi, thanks for the reply. Could you explain why or link me to a source, for the sake of curiosity?

>>5043994

Hybridization makes things sterile by definition.

The definition of species is a group of organisms that produce viable offspring in nature (i.e. not JUST in the lab). Hybridization takes two different species and forces them to produce offspring.

>>5043994
Sure.
>http://news.softpedia.com/news/Why-Hybrids-Are-Sterile-42118.shtml

>>5043974
No. Many plants have evolved away from reproducing with seeds and instead clone themselves. To get a new strawberry plant you've got to cut off a small piece of root and use that like a seed.

>>5044003
>Well that's a relief. I'm glad Africanized killer honey bees can't reproduce.

Alright, thanks guys

>>5044003

That definition of “species” is so outdated. It made sense at one point, but we’ve since figured out that such black-and-white distinctions don’t really serve the purpose of accurate theorization. It’s kind of like using the rigid clade system we’ve had in place forever. It’s great for arbitrary categorization, and only for arbitrary categorization.

I was in the same position a month ago, OP. People told me I couldn't just plant store-bought strawberries. I recalled that as a kid, though, a whole network of strawberries originated (or seemed to) from our compost pile one year, which would have contained store-bought strawberries. Anyway, a month or so ago, I planted 16 strawberries from Walmart or Stop and Shop or wherever, not expecting much. Today, I snapped a photo of one of the results:

Having read the thread, though, it will probably turn out that these aren't even strawberries and that I am retarded.

pic related, it's growing where I buried the strawberries.

>>5044040
Ugh, as I said, retarded.
Lost the pic in one of 28 captcha attempts.
Here it is:

>Biology
>Hard science

>>5044045
That's not a strawberry plant.

>>5044068
It's got the yellow-within-white flowers and the toothed leaves... but I agree, the fruit isn't particularly strawberry-lookin'. Do you know what it is?

>>5044073
Ha. I did some looking, and now I think my strawberries are Hairy Nightshade.

Most strawberry plants produce a harvest of about 6-7 fruit every 4 weeks or so.

>>5044085
Looks more like a tomato plant to me, and I reckon you're much more likely to have those seeds in your compost than nightshade.

The stem is what I first noticed when you suggested it was Strawberries. Strawberries are vines that lay close to the ground, no stiff upright stem.