Mock strawberry seed
LATIN NAME: Potentilla indica
COMMON NAME: Mock Strawberry
Mock strawberry is the fine, trailing, low-growing plant of the waysides and the shaded banks, and its small, bright-yellow, five-petalled flowers and the small, red, strawberry-like fruits have made it a familiar of the countryside for a very long time. The low, creeping, rooting stems carry the trifoliate leaves of the three round, toothed leaflets, and the small, bright-yellow flowers open through the long season, to be followed by the small, round, red, strawberry-like fruits. The fruits are mild and bland and best left to the birds, and the plant is a fine, easy, generous ground cover of the shaded, moist ground. It is a plant of the ordinary, well-drained soil.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
Mock strawberry has a steady and growing place in the plant science, and it has been studied for its creeping, rooting habit and its place among the low, trailing ground covers. The small, round, red fruits and the way the plant spreads along the shaded banks have been looked at closely, and it keeps showing up in the work on the ground-cover plants and the wayside perennials. The trifoliate leaves and the small, bright-yellow flowers have also made it a fine garden plant, and it is a regular subject of the studies of the low, trailing ground covers of the shaded regions.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
Mock strawberry is grown for the fine, bright-yellow flowers and the small, red, strawberry-like fruits. The low, creeping plant makes a generous, easy ground cover of the shaded banks and the difficult corners, and the small, red fruits are a fine food for the birds through the season. The bright-yellow flowers open over a very long season, and they are a fine, cheerful addition to the shaded garden. It has been written about in the horticultural papers for its easy, generous ground-covering ways, and it is a fine, easy plant of the shaded, moist garden.
Mock strawberry is a fine, generous ground cover of the shaded, difficult corners, and it roots along the ground as it goes. The small, bright-yellow flowers open through a very long season, and the small, red fruits are a food for the birds.
In the right spot the mock strawberry is a fine, dependable, generous ground cover, and it asks for very little beyond the shade and the ordinary, well-drained ground. The bright-yellow flowers keep opening through the whole season, and the small, red fruits follow them along the ground.
The mock strawberry is a fine, easy, generous ground cover of the shaded, difficult corners, and it roots along the ground as it spreads. The small, bright-yellow flowers open through a very long season, and the small, round, red, strawberry-like fruits follow them along the ground, giving a fine, cheerful, easy show.
To grow the mock strawberry from seed, sow the small, brown seeds over the surface of trays of moist, free-draining soil and cover them lightly, keep them in a bright, open spot and water gently. The seedlings appear within a couple of weeks and grow on fast. In a shaded or a semi-shaded spot with the ordinary, well-drained soil, the bright-yellow flowers and the small, red fruits will be there through the long season.
NAME: Mock Strawberry
OTHER COMMON NAMES: Indian Strawberry / False Strawberry / Gurbir
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Potentilla Indica syn. Potentilla Duchesnea
COLOR: Red Fruit & Yellow Flowers
PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost
BLOOM TIME: Late Spring – Early Fall
HARDINESS ZONE: 5 – 9
PLANT HEIGHT: 12 – 36″
PLANT SPACING: 15 – 18″
LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun – Part Shade
SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average – Dry
QUANTITY: 50 Seeds
OTHER: The Mock Strawberry Plant is an Asian native with evergreen leaves. It makes an excellent groundcover and is quite ornamental. It produces red fruit from July – Oct that looks like strawberries and are edible.
Mock strawberry Duchesnea indica
Uses: This plant is typically grown as ground cover or for its leaves and edible fruit. Best in a contained area.