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What are the common strawberry varieties on the market? What are their characteristics?

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Strawberry is a fruit loved by many people, and friends often go to greenhouses to pick strawberries to eat. I wonder which varieties of strawberries everyone has eaten? What are the more common strawberry varieties on the market? What are their characteristics? Friends who want to know can read on.

Strawberry is a fruit loved by many people, and friends often go to greenhouses to pick strawberries to eat. I wonder which varieties of strawberries everyone has eaten? What are the more common strawberry varieties on the market? What are their characteristics? Friends who want to know can read on!

Characteristics of common strawberry varieties on the market:

1. Peach Scent

Peach Scent is a new variety bred in Japan in recent years. It is a hybrid variety, and the hybridization process is relatively complicated. It has pale red skin and white flesh, is shaped like a peach and has a faint peach aroma. It has vigorous growth, high yield, and large fruit, but its sweetness is not high. Things are precious when they are rare. The price of "Peach Scent" strawberries is two to three times higher than ordinary strawberries, but they are still very popular on the market.

2. Pale Snow

Pale Snow white strawberry is the result of more than 20 years of research and development by fruit farmers in Nara Prefecture, Japan. Pale Snow white strawberry has a white or pale pink appearance, and the flesh is white with a slight pink tint. Pale Snow is a mutant variety of Saga Honoka. Both sweetness and aroma are good.

3. White Snow Komachi / White Giant

A variety bred in Japan. White Snow Komachi and White Giant (White Huge) are actually different names for the same variety. The fruit skin and flesh are both white, the seeds are red, the fruit has good firmness, and the fruit is short conical. Under high temperature and strong light, the fruit turns pink.

4. Sakura Pearl

This strawberry was bred by crossing "Xiaobai" and "Hongyan". Its plants average 25cm in height, and both the skin and flesh are white. The fruit shape is long conical, the texture is crisp, and the taste is sweet and fragrant. The average single fruit weight is 25-35g, the soluble solids content of the flesh is above 12%, and the yield per mu is about 5000 jin. Its disease resistance is medium, its tolerance to low temperature and weak light is strong, the fruit firmness is good, and it is resistant to storage and transportation.

5. Sweet Charlie

The fruit is very large and also hard, and the seeds on the skin are also very dense. The color is orange-red and it tends to turn green. After cutting, it is orange-red, and the inner core may be hollow. The fruit shape is conical.

Advantages: large fruit, high firmness, resistance to storage and transportation, good taste, strong yielding ability, and other characteristics. It is especially suitable for greenhouse cultivation in northern regions and is supplied to the New Year's Day and Spring Festival markets. Sweet Charlie strawberry has extremely shallow dormancy, similar to Toyonoka, at about 20 hours. It is suitable for protected forcing cultivation, resistant to powdery mildew and yellows commonly seen in greenhouses, strongly resistant to high and low temperatures, and also fruits early. It is suitable for open fields and even more suitable for protected forcing cultivation.

Disadvantages: The shortcoming is that the flesh density is slightly low, so attention should be paid to timely harvesting.

6. Nyoho

A Japanese variety. The fruit is conical, neat, and averages 12-13 grams per fruit. The fruit surface is bright red, vivid, and strongly glossy. The flesh is pale red, fine in texture, relatively dense, with a sweet and slightly sour flavor and a rich aroma. The flesh is pale red, high in firmness, and pleasantly sweet and sour.

Advantages: In protected cultivation, flower bud differentiation is early, flowering is early, and early-stage yield is high. It is an early-maturing, high-quality variety for protected forcing cultivation, mainly used for fresh eating. It is suitable for forcing cultivation in strawberry-growing areas in southern and central China, and the fruit has relatively good storage resistance. It is relatively resistant to storage and transportation.

Disadvantages: When cultivated in open fields, it grows luxuriantly but sets fruit poorly. When this variety is cultivated under protection, female flowers without stamens may appear, affecting early yield, and artificial supplementary pollination is required.

In the text above, the editor introduced a total of six strawberry varieties that are relatively common on the market. Each has its own characteristics. Has everyone eaten these strawberries? What do you think of their taste?

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