Pineberries: The White Strawberries That Taste Like Pineapple
Revived, ancient pineberries are more nutritious and delicious than red strawberries. You’ll be hard-pressed to find them in the grocery store, but they’re easy to grow.
Around 1650 a sailor brought the first tiny red strawberries from North America to Europe (known then as red scarlets). About a century later, another European sailor brought home the first white strawberries from South America.
It was around that time, 1750, that the two strawberry species spontaneously crossed and created the mother of all modern strawberries: Fragaria Ananassa. Her seedlings came in two varieties: red and white.
The white berries were female and came to be known as pineberries, while the red berries were male and came to be known as strawberries.
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