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'Interesting' Strawberries!

I thought you might like to see these...any ideas on why the seeds on the strawberry have germinated?

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Sarah x
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  • cootambear
    cootambear Posts: 1,474 Forumite
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    do you have any others like it?
    Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4 (George Orwell, 1984).

    (I desire) ‘a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume’,

    (Sylvia Pankhurst).
  • choccyface2006
    choccyface2006 Posts: 2,304 Forumite
    Yes, all the strawberries on one plant are looking the same!
  • andygb
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    That is a really strange specimem. The following link, is to a research establishment in my area who specialise in this type of thing

    http://www.emr.ac.uk/

    They may well be interested in that.
  • themull1
    themull1 Posts: 4,299 Forumite
    You'll have to shave them all befire eating!
  • cootambear
    cootambear Posts: 1,474 Forumite
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    andygb wrote: »
    That is a really strange specimem. The following link, is to a research establishment in my area who specialise in this type of thing

    http://www.emr.ac.uk/

    They may well be interested in that.

    ya


    my plant science is near non existent, but new hybrids can crop up without human intervention, (in stawbs more than most I believe) though extremely rarely

    (the above may be complete tosh btw)


    cant see a plant like that having any commercial potential, unless the taste is utterly divine, though how it happened and its genetic make uo may help research in to perfecting the ultimate strawb
    Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4 (George Orwell, 1984).

    (I desire) ‘a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume’,

    (Sylvia Pankhurst).
  • POPPYOSCAR
    POPPYOSCAR Posts: 14,902 Forumite
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    Like the fact you have a matching dress on!!
  • Soot2006
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    POPPYOSCAR wrote: »
    Like the fact you have a matching dress on!!

    Overall, crazy Strwberry aside, it's actually a brilliant photo ... The BBC might like it for their GM CROPS KILL PEOPLE style headlines ....
  • cootambear
    cootambear Posts: 1,474 Forumite
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    Soot2006 wrote: »
    Overall, crazy Strwberry aside, it's actually a brilliant photo ... The BBC might like it for their GM CROPS KILL PEOPLE style headlines ....

    hmm. how about, `GM crops turn ladies dress the same colour as the fruit`. Is human skin next`?

    `We talk to a discredited `academic` who has a grade 4 cse in biology and a degree from the sir stanley unwin postal university about what might happen next`.
    Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2 = 4 (George Orwell, 1984).

    (I desire) ‘a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume’,

    (Sylvia Pankhurst).
  • choccyface2006
    choccyface2006 Posts: 2,304 Forumite
    edited 8 June 2012 at 5:39PM
    Thanks for the comments, I got my niece to hold it on the jubilee day as I thought her red dress looked lovely in the background!

    I don't think it would taste great or be good for anything really but it's certainly unusual and I'm not sure why it's grown like that!

    Sarah x
  • oldtractor
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    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    maybe the weather has had an influence.
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