Thanks for the info.
I posted this question on the nafex facebook group as well as to this listserve. The replies via this system answered my question.
The 2 replies from facebook provided fine information, but did not answer my question at all.
While facebook might have more "action." I am glad this list is still here!
--Henry
On Friday, August 5, 2022, 01:56:25 PM CDT, Lee Reich <leeareich@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Henry,
I first learned about musk strawberries decades ago and then, while working at the Fruit Lab of the USDA, wanted to try them. They were unavailable in this country then, but I was able to import them and waited for their 2 year quarantine. I know that other people have gotten fruit from them but I never got more than very few, very small fruits. The variety I had (and still have a few of, from years of runnering, which it does prolifically) is Profumata di Tortona, which was was grown commercially in Italy. I did have a male pollinator also, called Capron.
I consider this strawberry to be one of the best tasting, sort of like strawberry and raspberry. But I don't know why it's yield and size were so poor.
By the way, I devoted a chapter to musk and alpine strawberries (the latter of which I do grow, the white variety, which is delectable) in my now out of print book Uncommon Fruit for Every Garden. It will be updated and back in print in a few years.
Both alpine and musk strawberries survive my Zone 5 winters.
Lee
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> On Aug 5, 2022, at 12:16 PM, Bors, Bob <bob.bors@usask.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi Henry,
>
> The musk strawberry Fragaria moschata is super cold hardy.
> In my grad school days in Ontario, I recall we had a freak early winter rainfall that fell on frozen ground.
> Plants stayed imbedded in ice most of the winter.
> This killed off a huge % strawberries, but not F. Mochata. It did fine.
>
> Its musky flavor is somewhat like concord grapes.
> Berries can be as big as an inch.
> It has 6 chromosomes while regular strawberries have 8.
> Although an accession or two have complete flowers, mostly they have male and female plants. So that would be problematic to sell both types.
> I'm not sure where to get them commercially.
> I got some from the genebank in Corvallis years ago. I don't have them anymore.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Bob Bors, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Head of the Fruit Program
> Dept. of Plant Sciences
> 51 Campus Drive
> Saskatoon, SK S7N 5A8 Canada
> www.fruit.usask.ca
>
>
>
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> I buy plants for the Friends School Plant Sale in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
>
> Strawberries were very popular last year and sold out quickly, so we want to add some new varieties.
>
> A customer requested the European musk strawberry, but none of us know anything about it.
>
> Specifically, we want to know if it would be a good candidate for mid-continental Zone 4.
>
> --Henry Fieldseth
> Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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