MAIN CHARACTERISTICS AND FRUIT.

Perennial plant that produces new shoots every year.
It has a basal rosette from which leaves and flower stems appear, both of the same length. The floral stems do not have leaves. At its apex appear the flowers, with five white petals, five sepals and numerous stamens. The petioles of the leaves are sharp. Each one supports a composite sheet with three oval, serrated leaflets. These are bright green in the beam and more pale on the underside, with a very prominent rib and pilosidad abundant. From the basal rosette also emerge another type of creeping stems that produce adventitious roots from which other plants are born. It is not a citrus.

What is consumed of this plant is a red, sweet and aromatic eterio, a thickening of the floral receptacle whose function is to contain within itself the true fruits of the plant, small achenes of dark color that number between 150 and 200 they stay in each eterio.

NUTRITIONAL CONTRIBUTION.
One cup (100 g) of strawberries contains approximately 34.5 calories and is an excellent source of vitamin C and vitamin P or bioflavonoids.

Composition for each 100 g eatable:
• Calories 34.5
• Water 85%
• Carbohydrates (g) 7
• Fiber (g) 2,2
• Potassium (mg) 150
• Magnesium (mg) 13
• Calcium (mg) 30
• Vitamin C (mg) 60
• Folates (μg) 62
• Vitamin E (mg) 0.2