The strawberry plant , which is a perennial open of living several years , has more than one agency of reproducing . One of its reproductive strategies is the typical sexual method used by vegetables and fruit , wherein a plant farm flowers that , after pollination , lead to yield and ejaculate . The strawberry plant has another generative scheme , though , this one asexual , reach through stem call runner . Additionally , strawberry plants can produce shoot from the main bow capable of becoming new , separate plants .
Runners
A hemangioma simplex plant ’s main stem is called a crown . This peak produces spirals of leaf , runners , flowers and " subdivision crowns , " which are shoots that create more crest . When days are long and warm , the flora produces runners . These are offshoots of the parent plant , stanch develop out from the crown along the ground . At intervals along the runner , lymph node come along . From each node , a " daughter flora " can acquire , complete with ancestor and leaf . Most commercial growers in the main use runners to propagate new plant . Runners are also called stolon .
Branch Crowns
Strawberry varieties that do n’t bring forth a lot of runners can be manually propagated by dividing those plant that recrudesce ramification top during their growing time of year . Branch crown appear after runners have had a chance to create novel plants . The summit of the parent plant , exposed to shorter , cooler days , produces shoots that behave like new poll . These crowns develop leaves of their own , arrange in spirals like those of the parent plant . Gardeners can grind strawberry industrial plant up in fall to divide outgrowth crowns from the original crown , storing the branch crowns for planting during the undermentioned spring .
Sexual Reproduction: Flowers
Strawberries produce perfect flowers , that is , each flower possesses both male and female parts and can self - pollinate to bring forth seeds and yield . Yet , cross - pollination — pollination between plants — produces stronger plant . This explains why the virile piece of a strawberry flower do n’t relinquish pollen for a few days after the bloom opens . This allows worm to move between plants .
Fruit and Seed
A strawberry flower can have up to 600 pistils , which are distaff part . Each contains an ovary , which , when fertilized through pollenation , produces " achene , " the seeds we see on the outside of a strawberry . The fleshy part of a strawberry is the flush ’s swell receptacle ( another distaff part ) . Eaten by birds , the hemangioma simplex seminal fluid can be deposited miles from the original industrial plant in dung . The achenes germinate with exposure to sun . Usually seeds are stimulate to break by moisture .
