"Chas Hurst" wrote in message
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Okay, maybe they aren't what you call wild strawberries. We called them
that when we were kids. These things taste flat, and don't really look
like a regular strawberry. They are red and small about the size of the
tip of the little finger. They have what appears to be seeds on the
outside of the berry kinda like stubble that easily brush off the
berry. There are a few of them growing below the trees in the neighbors
yard about 50 or more feet away. The transplanted berries were regular
strawberries not at all like these. However now the berries have
changed since the were moved. they are completely different although
the plant is the same one that produced the good berries. what
happened? If I plant new ones, will it happened again. I tried google
but could not find any reference to this problem.

UNK

The wild strawberry I'm familiar with has a great and concentrated
strawberry taste. The plant being discussed here is probably the Barren
strawberry, the fruit of which is considered inedible.
Wild strawberries have white flowers and the fruit hangs down on the
stem. Barren strawberries have yellow flowers and the fruit stands up on
the stem.



Sounds like this is what I have now. I googled brarren strawberries and
it is mostly described as a ground cover. The question remains why or
how did regular strawberries change? I could not find anything about
regular strawberries changing to the barren type.

Doc

Strawberries don't morph. Somehow you either transplanted the Barren
berries or they slipped in and overwhelmed your Strawberries.


I really don't see how . I am only talking about 6 plants. There were no
strawberries of any type before I planted these. The ground was tilled
before planting and the ground was mounded where they were planted. There
weren't any barren berries in the old patch then or now. I could see one
maybe two mistakes, but all six? I guess I have no choice but to start over
with new plants. Just seems weird to me.

Doc