Strawberry plant
Mara des Bois strawberry
Mara des Bois strawberry: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
'Mara des Bois' is a cultivated variety of Fragaria × ananassa, the garden strawberry, in the rose family, Rosaceae. This French selection is known for fragrant fruit and its everbearing habit. Its name brings woodland strawberries to mind, but it refers to a selected garden variety rather than a wild strawberry population.This low-growing perennial forms rosettes of green leaves. Each leaf has three toothed leaflets, giving it the familiar strawberry outline. The foliage often reaches around twenty centimetres in height. Plants can also produce runners: long stems that travel above the soil and carry new rosettes. Their spread therefore depends on the space available and the development of these young plants.White flowers appear from late spring and may continue through summer. The fruit is conical, sometimes slightly elongated, and turns red to dark red. Berries are generally small to medium in size, with tender, juicy flesh. This variety is valued…
