Iturup Strawberry

Taxobox
name = Iturup Strawberry

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image_width = 240px
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Rosales
familia = Rosaceae
subfamilia = Rosoideae
genus = "Fragaria"
species = "F. iturupensis"
binomial = "Fragaria iturupensis"
binomial_authority = Staudt

The Iturup Strawberry ("Fragaria iturupensis") is a species of strawberry, endemic to Iturup in the Kuril Islands. It is noted to have relatively large berries for a wild species, similar in appearance to those of "Fragaria virginiana".

Polyploidy

All strawberries have a base haploid count of 7 chromosomes. "Fragaria iturupensis" is octoploid, having eight pairs of these chromosomes for a total of 56.

References and external links

*Hummer, K.E., Sabitov, A., & Davis, T. 2005. Iturup And Sakhalin Island Strawberries. "Hortscience" 40(4): 1127. [http://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publications.htm?SEQ_NO_115=177440 Abstract] .
* [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?317933 Iturup Strawberry data from GRIN Taxonomy Database]