echnically, the cultivated strawberry plant, , is a member of the rose family, Rosaceaes. Prior to the relatively recent development of in the last couple of centuries, the more common strawberries were wood strawberries () and musky strawberries () cultivated in Europe and Russia for centuries. These species were largely supplanted by cultivation of F over the last 250 years. We all know, however, that strawberries are much more than their technical botany.
