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Modern strawberries trace back to 18th-century French chance crossing
Original: From maptag.gg: Approximately every big strawberry you eat today belongs to the species created when a strawberry from C
Nearly every large cultivated strawberry eaten today descends from a hybrid created when a strawberry from Chile met one from Virginia in France. The crossing is credited to Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, the French botanist born on October 7, 1747, whose birthday botany enthusiasts are marking by sharing the story of how he identified and developed the modern garden strawberry species.
Why now: People are marking the birthday of botanist Antoine Nicolas Duchesne by sharing the origin story of the modern strawberry.
Antoine Nicolas DuchesneFranceChileVirginia
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