Six strawberry cultivars (Fragaria X ananassa Duch.), four developed in Brazil (AGF 080, Campinas, Guarani and IAC Princesa Isabel) and two introduced (Reiko from Japan and Sequoia from USA) were botanically evaluated in order to screening morphological vegetativa and reproductive characters to get the taxonomical distinction of them. Two experiments were carried out in 1992 and 1993 at the Experimental Station of Monte Alegre do Sul, Instituto Agronômico (IAC), State of São Paulo, Brazil. The following morphological characters were screened to distinguish the cultivars studied: growing habit; leaflet number; leaf colour; middle leaflet length and width ratio; middle leaflet blade base angle and stipules length; primary flower position regarding the canopy; petal number of primary flowers; petal length and width ratio; ovary receptacle; fruit shape; fruit base shape; calix and epicalix position; internal hollow in the fruit; fruit length and width. One analytical key aimed to identify the six cultivars. AGF 080 and Campinas cultivars did not differ by the analysed characters.
Fragaria X ananassa Duch.; strawberry; botanical characterization