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Thread #128163   Message #2867377
Posted By: MGM·Lion
19-Mar-10 - 12:01 AM
Thread Name: How many bluebells grow in the salt sea
Subject: RE: How many bluebells grow in the salt sea
Note following from Wiki entry on 'fragaria', to which one is directed from entry on "Garden Strawberry" (which is the commercially grown sort we all think of). The one noted below, a much smaller wild strawberry, obviously, from its English name, grows in the forest as much as does the bluebell ~~

"Fragaria vesca Coville - Woodland Strawberry (Northern Hemisphere)"

I have always taken it that this is the sort ref'd in the "False Bride/Week Before Easter" song, in which strawberries feature in every version I ever recollect hearing. Whether 'bluebell' or 'strawberry' will scan better obviously depends on which tune is being used.

~Michael~