Fragaria yezoensis is a species of strawberry native to the Japanese island of Hokkaido. It grows wild, and is of no economic value. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Rosaceae (rose family) Elaeagnaceae Rhamnaceae (buckthorn family) Ulmaceae (elm family) Celtidaceae Moraceae (mulberry family) Urticaceae (nettle family) Cecropiaceae Cannabaceae (hemp family) Barbeyaceae Dirachmaceae Rosales is an order of flowering plants, including the rose family, Rosaceae. ... Subfamilies Rosoideae Spiraeoideae Maloideae Amygdaloideae or Prunoideae The Rosaceae or rose family is a large family of plants, with about 3,000-4,000 species in 100-120 genera. ... Fragaria is a genus of the Rosaceae family, which includes the garden strawberry (Fragaria ananassa), Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), beach strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis), Hautbois strawberry (Fragaria moschata), and wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca). ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... Fragaria vesca Gariguette, a tasty (and somewhat expensive) variety cultivated in southern France. ... Hokkaido   listen? (北海道 Hokkaidō, literal meaning: North Sea Route, Ainu: Mosir), formerly known as Ezo, is the second largest island of Japan. ...

All Fragaria species have 7 types of chromosomes. Fragaria yezoensis is diploid, having 2 pairs of these chromosomes for a total of 14 chromosomes. Diploid (meaning double in Greek) cells have two copies (homologs) of each chromosome (both sex- and non-sex determining chromosomes), usually one from the mother and one from the father. ...

Citation

Oda, Y. 2002. PHOTOSYNTHETIC CHARACTERISTICS AND GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF DIPLOID FRAGARIA SPECIES NATIVE IN JAPAN. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 567:381-384

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[Abstract of Oda article]

[F. yezoensis data from GRIN Taxonomy Database]