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Duchesnea indica (Andr.) Focke
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indica: of India
Mountain slopes, meadows, river banks, wet places, ravines, field margins; below 3100 m.
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This introduced perennial plant consists of trifoliate basal leaves with long petioles that develop from a crown of roots. The petioles have appressed white hairs. Each blunt-tipped leaflet is broadly ovate or obovate, spanning about 1½" in length and 1" across. The middle leaflet is wedge-shaped at the base. The margins of these leaflets are coarsely crenate-serrate, and they have conspicuous pinnate venation. The upper leaflet surfaces are medium to dark green and hairless. Occasionally, light green to reddish purple stolons develop from the crown that are long and slender. They have appressed hairs and form new plantlets at their tips. The crown also produces one or more flowering stalks, each with a single flower. Each flower is about ¾" across, consisting of 5 yellow petals, 5 green sepals, numerous stamens with yellow anthers, and a central yellow receptacle with numerous pistils. The triangular sepals are about as long as the petals. Immediately underneath each flower, there are spreading bracts that are green and rectangular-shaped. Each bract has 3 teeth along its outer edge. The blooming period occurs from late spring to mid-summer and lasts about a month. Each flower is replaced by a bright red drupe about ½" across that is spheroid or ovoid in shape. There are small red seeds scattered across its rather bumpy surface. The sepals turn upward around the drupe. The drupes of this species have a bland flavor and dry texture. A colony of plants produces flowers and drupes sparingly, as most of the available energy is devoted to vegetative reproduction. The root system consists of crown with coarse secondary roots, which also produces stolons and possibly rhizomes. This species forms vegetative colonies readily. Cultivation
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Growing in mountain slopes, meadows, river banks, wet places; below 1800 m.
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"Notes: Western Ghats, Evergreen Forests"
The flowers attract small bees and flower flies. Birds probably eat the drupes and spread them around, although the drupes of Mock Strawberry appear to be less attractive to native birds than those of Fragaria virginica (Wild Strawberry). Rabbits probably eat the foliage of this species. Photographic Location
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Herbs perennial. Rhizome robust, short. Stolons 30-100 cm, together with petioles and pedicels spreading hairy or densely villous. Stipules narrowly ovate to broadly lanceolate, 5-8 mm; petiole 1-5 cm; leaflets petiolulate, obovate to rhombic-oblong, 2-3.5 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, both surfaces together with petiole pilose or adaxially glabrous, margin obtusely serrate, apex rounded. Flowers 1-2.5 cm in diameter; pedicel 3-6 cm, pilose. Sepals ovate, apex acute; epicalyx segments obovate, longer than sepals, apex usually 3-5-serrate. Petals rounded at apex. Stamens 20-30. Carpels numerous, free. Aggregate fruit ripening red, shining, 1-2 cm in diameter, spongy. Achenes shining when fresh, ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm, glabrous or inconspicuously papillate.
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Flowering from June to August; fruiting from August to October.
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Mock Strawberry occurs sporadically in only a few counties in Illinois (see Distribution Map). It is probably more common that official records indicate, and likely spreading to other areas of the state. It occurs in semi-shaded areas of lawns primarily, where it can adapt to a regimen of regular mowing because of its low-growing habit. This species was introduced from southern Asia as an ornamental plant.
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The chromosomal number of Duchesnea indica is 2n = 84 (Naruhashi et al., 1986; Naruhashi and Takano, 1987; Zhao et al., 1990; Naruhashi and Iwatsubo, 1991; Xu et al., 1992).
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