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10 unusual facts about strawberry


Elaterite

Strawberry, Utah, USA: Flows from the ground in a soft elastic form, also exists in the brittle form from various veins in the canyon walls.

Historic Turkey Creek High School

Historically, these strawberry schools closed for three months during the strawberry picking season in the winter months, rather than in the summer like most U.S. Schools.

Locks Heath

In the late 19th and early 20th Century, the most important local activity in this area was Strawberry growing.

Ridgely, Maryland

Ridgely's economy flourished as a result of its flourishing local crop production, including strawberries, huckleberries, vegetables, eggs, and poultry.

Springfield Township, Lucas County, Ohio

Strawberries were a mainstay for many years, and one family had many acres of cranberries that were cultivated.

Strawberry, Utah

In the 1930s the CCC came in and replaced the original bridges with heavier cable support bridges.

R.M. Pope owned a number of Elaterite mines in Dry canyon and Sam's Canyon that employed a number of workers also.

Elaterite bubbles up like tar from the ground in areas along the river.

Team Strawberry

The team's name originated from an earlier race in which Alan McDonald was dubbed "The Strawberry Kid", when he and his support crew, during a race, paused to track down a group of drunk drivers in the mountain town of Strawberry, Arizona.

Thérésa Tallien

She was a very colorful figure; one story is that she was said to bathe in the juice of strawberries for their healing properties.


Agriculture in Scotland

The Tayside and Angus area is a centre of production of soft fruits such as strawberries, raspberries and loganberries, owing to the mild climate.

Alvadore, Oregon

Today Alvadore is home to a general store and gas station that contains a post office (ZIP Code 97409), a large regional nursery—Decker Nursery—known for its Christmas trees, a volunteer fire department, the Alvadore Christian Church, a nut-drying plant affiliated with Blue Diamond Growers, and a variety of other agricultural businesses including an organic strawberry farm (Berg's Berries and Organic Produce).

Arbutus andrachne

Arbutus andrachne, commonly called the Greek Strawberry Tree, is an evergreen shrub or small tree in the family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, the Middle East, and southwestern Asia.

California Milk Processor Board

In 2009, the Board launched a sequel to the "White Gold" campaign by releasing "The Battle for Milkquarious", a 22 minute long rock opera featuring an array of old and new characters, including "White Gold", Strawberry Summers, Jug Life, Bovina the Uni-Pega-Cow, and the evil Nasterious.

Common Rain Frog

Breviceps acutirostris, also known as the Strawberry Rain Frog, a frog species found in a small region at the southern tip of Africa

Dance Gavin Dance

--Bands with only one member in common are NOT to be included in accordance with Wikipedia guidelines.-->Secret Band, Strawberry Girls, Emarosa, A Lot Like Birds, Tides of Man, Consider the Thief, Five Minute Ride, Sianvar

Davey Johnson

He remains the winningest manager in Mets history and was inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame with Frank Cashen, Darryl Strawberry, and Dwight Gooden on August 1, 2010.

Extract

A majority of other, concentrated fruit flavors, such as banana, cherry, currant, peach, pineapple, raspberry and strawberry, are produced by combinations of various esters, together with special oils.

F. viridis

Fragaria viridis, a strawberry species native to Europe and central Asia

Football Manager 2007

The Strawberry demo includes playable leagues for Brazil, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain and Sweden, many kits and player photos, and language support for many other regions.

Fragaria cascadensis

The strawberry is in the Oregon Cascades Mountains from the Columbia River to Crater Lake, at elevations of about 3,000 feet up to tree line.

Fragaria iturupensis

Fragaria iturupensis, the Iturup Strawberry, is a species of strawberry, endemic to Iturup in the Kuril Islands.

Friesland Foods

In September 2008, the testing of Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) found that the "Dutch Lady" brand of strawberry flavoured milk manufactured in China to be contaminated with melamine.

George W. Marston House

Some of the plants found in the garden at its prime included Canary Island Pines, Eucalyptus trees, strawberry trees, wild lilacs, forget-me-nots, and Virginia creeper vines.

Georgina Island

On a neighbouring island Pope John Paul II stayed on Strawberry Island for four days just before World Youth Day 2002 in Toronto.

Houghton Lodge

The antecedents of Houghton's style of architecture, known as cottage ornée, can be traced to the 'Strawberry Hill Gothic' style made popular by Horace Walpole at his fantasy castle at Strawberry Hill in the final quarter of the eighteenth century and further popularised by the writings of James Malton in his 1802 Essay on British Cottage Architecture.

Jess Klein

Klein's second solo effort for Ryko, Strawberry Lover, was produced by RCA recording artist Marc Copely.

Jim Cochran

He started Swanton Berry Farm in 1983 near Santa Cruz, California and subsequently developed a wide range of new methods, which include crop rotations, such as broccoli and brussels sprouts, trap crops such as mustard and alfalfa, and the use of natural predators, to control strawberry specific pests and diseases.

Mochi

In the United States the grocery chains Trader Joe's, H Mart, Lotte, and Mollie Stone's sell mochi ice cream in flavors of chocolate, mango, coconut, green tea, coffee, red bean, vanilla, and strawberry.

Ottoman strawberry

The Ottoman strawberry was once cultivated in large quantities in the Arnavutköy neighbourhood of Istanbul, and the strawberry is also known as the Arnavutköy variety.

Patchi

The menu is famous for integrating roasted nuts (hazelnuts, pistachios, almonds), Gianduja, Orange Peel, dried Strawberry bits, and more.

Pin Drop Violence

In December 2005, they were the headlining act at Strawberry Fields, the National Law School of India University's annual music fest.

Plougastel-Daoulas

The New World species of strawberry, Fragaria chiloensis, which had been introduced into France by Amédée-François Frézier (1682–1773), flourished in the marine climate of Plougastel.

Portillo's Restaurants

They feature pancake and waffle combinations and specialty items such as a baked apple pancakes, German pancakes, strawberry cheesecake french toast, and white chocolate raspberry Belgian waffles.

Ryuhoku, Kumamoto

The town's output is mainly agricultural, with the major crops being nashi pears, strawberries, glutinous rice, and igusa straw for making tatami mats.

Silverhill, Nottinghamshire

This claim was later disputed, with the suggestion that Strawberry Bank near Huthwaite was the highest natural point, with others highlighting Newtonwood Lane, on the western edge of the county as another possible contender.

Spanish Fork River

In 1909, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation completed a tunnel to supplement the Spanish Fork's flow using water from the Strawberry River through the Strawberry Valley Project, part of the Central Utah Project.

Strawberry Fields Festival

Chip Monck, who designed the stage lighting for Woodstock and became the impromptu emcee of that event had planned to emcee Strawberry Fields but the various changes in dates and venues pushed the festival into August and Mr.Monck was bound to honour a previous commitment to work the Rolling Stones European tour at that time.

Strawberry Hill, London

The nineteenth-century development is named after "Strawberry Hill", the fanciful Gothic Revival villa designed by author Horace Walpole between 1749 and 1776.

Strawberry Hills, New South Wales

Strawberry Hills is also the home of a number of significant cultural organisations including Opera Australia, The Australia Council for the Arts, and numerous notable entertainment venues including the Belvoir Street Theatre and the Strawberry Hills Hotel, a renowned Traditional Australian jazz venue located on Elizabeth Street.

Strawberry Mansion

Nannie Lee House, historic house in Melbourne, Florida - also known as the Strawberry Mansion

Strawberry Panic!

In December 2003, the characters from Spica (Hikari, Amane, Yaya, and Tsubomi) and Lulim (Kizuna, Chikaru, Remon, and Kagome) were introduced and in the January 2004 issue the first illustrations of the three schools and the Strawberry Dorms were published, drawn by Chitose Maki; the reader participation game began in this issue.

Strawberry Shortcake

In 1991, THQ tried reviving the franchise by producing an updated line of Strawberry Shortcake dolls.

Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins

Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins is a 1985 animated television special from Canada's Nelvana Limited, and the last one until DiC's recent revival to feature the American Greetings character, Strawberry Shortcake (1993–1995) on Fox Kids.

Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade

Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade is an animated television special from 1982, made by Romeo Muller, Robert L. Rosen, and Fred Wolf.

Strawberry tree

Myrica rubra in the Myricaceae family, referred to as the Chinese strawberry tree

Talk Tonight

It is also mentioned in the Oasis book by Paul Mathurs, Take Me There, that his friend also had an obsession with Snapple Strawberry Lemonade, which contributed to the line in the song, "all your dreams are made of strawberry lemonade." The song also featured on the DVD Live By The Sea after Noel makes a mistake on the track "D'Yer Wanna Be A Spaceman?".

The Mad Scientists' Club

A two-part episode in 1971 of the TV series Wonderful World of Disney was loosely based on "The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake".

The Strawberry Statement

The Strawberry Statement is a non-fiction book by James Simon Kunen, written when he was 19, which chronicled his experiences at Columbia University from 1966–1968, particularly the April 1968 protests and takeover of the office of the dean of Columbia by student protesters.