The Best Strawberry Varieties from Japan: Characteristics of Akihime, Sweet Charlie, Beauty, and Guifei
The strawberry is a perennial herbaceous plant, also known as the raspberry, native to South America, and introduced in the early 20th century. Strawberries usually grow in regions with warm weather and are not cold-tolerant. The strawberry is native to South America and is mainly distributed in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Strawberries are grown in Hebei, Shandong and many southern provinces in China. There are more than 2000 strawberry varieties, with bright red and beautiful fruit, soft and juicy, sweet and fragrant, with a delightful aroma. So which are the best strawberry varieties from Japan?
Common strawberries include the following varieties:
1. Akihime. The fruit is elongated and conical, the flesh is soft and juicy, and the taste is sweet, making it highly favored by strawberry growers. Due to its low yield and high quality, its picking price is high. It does not keep well. If you want to keep it for another two days, it is recommended to pick it at 7 or 8 days.
2. Sweet Charlie. Its fruit is large and uniform in size each time, conical in shape, with a dark red surface. Its leaves are larger than those of ordinary strawberries, thick and green, with strong photosynthesis and high yield, so the picking price is relatively cheap.
3. Beauty. Its characteristics are similar in some ways to Akihime, with an elongated conical fruit; it is named for its red plant base and its beautiful bright red fruit. Being juicy, sweet and rich in flesh is the greatest feature of “Red Face”. This year, it is a blockbuster in the suburbs, and its popularity is obvious.
4. Tianxiang. The “Tixiang” strawberry is a cross between “dactylecter” and “camrosa”. Under solar greenhouse conditions in early January in Beijing, the ripe fruit is conical in shape, with an average single fruit weight of 29.8 grams and a maximum fruit weight of 58 grams, orange-red in color, with strong gloss, a unique flavor, and suitable for shipping. Therefore, when picking, you can choose more and take them home to taste.
5. Guifei. The latest variety offered from Japan, said to be one of the most popular varieties in Japan. The fruit is large, short and conical, matching our image of a strawberry, sweet in taste, with a delicate fragrance; its color is red, and when fully ripe the fruit takes on a dark purple appearance.
