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==Description== Strawberries are not [[Berry (botany)|berries in the botanical sense]].<ref name=Esau>Esau, K. 1977. ''Anatomy of seed plants''. John Wiley and Sons, New York.</ref> The fleshy and edible part of the "fruit" is a [[receptacle (botany)|receptacle]], and the parts that are sometimes mistakenly called "seeds" are [[achene]]s and therefore the true botanical fruits.<ref name=Esau/><ref>E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia: [http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/Atlas/Atlas.aspx?sciname=Fragaria%20virginiana ''Fragaria virginiana''].</ref>
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