False strawberries. Taken with camera about waist height.
Small, plants, very tight to the ground. Growing in the grass, and no taller than the grass.
Very small, very bright red berries, carried like this.
Sky.
More sky.
One of the neighbors whose yard we pass has thoughtfully planted real strawberries, so we can have a look at the differences.
This pic, also taken at waist height. These are much bigger plants. Bigger leaves, and much taller (some of them working on being a foot tall).
Real strawberries are carried like this. They have seeds on the outside, not those strange sticky-outy things.....
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I learned something new. I didn't know there was such a thing as false strawberries. Can you eat the berries? If so, do they taste the same as real strawberries?
They were new to me, too.
What I read (after googling) said they were edible but tasteless.
After seeing all the bugs on that one berry (after I saw it -- them!) on "the big screen," I am less inclined to taste one than I was when I first read "edible".....
Thanks! Bugs do tend to make things less appetizing, don't they? :)
I think about this bug thing -- it seems to me that we are choosing between bugs and poison...... And are probably better off eating bugs. :-(
But ... eeuuuwh....................
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