☙ Strawberry

Genus Fragaria L. (1753). WFO

Period Breton (brezhoneg): bod-sivi m. LB

Period English: strawberry.

Period French: fraisier m. BD

Fragaria vesca: fraisier des Alpes m.; BD fraisier des bois m.; LB fraisier comestible m.; LB fraisier des quatre saisons m. BD

Period German: Erdbeere f.; A&S ErdbeerblĂŒthe f. (the flower). JRV

Plantagenet English: strawbery (Promptorium Parvulorum 1440, Catholicon Anglicum 1483); HNE fragum (Promptorium Parvulorum 1440, Catholicon Anglicum 1483); HNE

Tudor English: strawbery (Turner 1548, 1568). HNE

Elizabethian English: straw-berries (Gerard 1597, 1568). HNE

Stuart English: fraise; a stawberrie (Cotgrave 1611). HNE

Sentiments:

🏶︎ BontĂ© parfaitePerfect goodness ◼︎ (1819-c.1825); CLT LA-M

 Perfect goodness ▲︎◆︎ (1825-1869); HP:FE TTA LH S&K RT:LPF

 Perfection ▲︎◆︎ (1839-1850); FS HGA:OT

 Perfect excellence ▲︎◆︎ (1840-1858); TM FSO HGA:LOF

Wild strawberry:

🏶︎ Perfection ▲︎ (1840); TM

Flower:

🏶︎ ParfumPerfume ◼︎ (1811); BD

🏶︎ Foresight ▲︎ (1867); GAL

🏶︎ Wann werde ich dich wiederĆżehen?When will I see you again? ●︎ (c.1880). JRV

Leaves:

🏶︎ Perfection ▲︎ (1824); O&B

Region:

Native: Northern hemisphere excluding Greenland and Iceland, Africa, the Arabian Peninsular, and some further extremities; Guatemala; Argentina South; Chile South and Central; Bolivia.WFO

Introduced: Kenya; Tanzania; Canary Islands; Tunisia; Cape and Northern Provinces; Ivory Coast; Rwanda; Mauritius; RĂ©union; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; Jawa; Malaya; Philippines; Sumatera; New Guinea; Aotearoa; Baleares; Pitcairn Island; Brazil South; Trinidad-Tobago; El Salvador; Honduras; Argentina Northwest; Columbia; Ecuador.WFO

Seasonality: Perennial, fruits and flowers spring and summer depending on variety.

Period Colours: TBC.

Heraldry: Usually only used in leaf-form, referred to as frasier; as this is also a Scottish term for cinquefoil, some assert that frasier should be depicted as such. James Parker's glossary gives the following examples:

Sable, on a bend between in chief a greyhound courant bendwise and in base a dolphin haurient argent, three torteaux; a chief of the second charged with three sprigs of strawberry fructed proper—HOLLIST, Midhurst, Sussex.

Azure, three garbs or with a strawberry leaf in the centre—CUMING, Moray, temp. James V.

Azure, three frasiers argent—FRASER, Pitcallain.

Azure, a lion rampant argent crowned with an antique crown or armed and langued gules within a bordure of the second charged with six frasiers of the first—MAC DOUGALL, Mackerston, co. Roxburgh.

Religious: TBC.

Cited Species:

🏶︎ Fragaria chiloensis subsp. lucida (E.Vilm. ex J.Gay) Staudt (1962)

 = Fragaria lucida E.Vilm. ex J.Gay (1857), WFO beach strawberry (mentioned for the 'slightly violet-scented' flowers); HNE

🏶︎ Fragaria moschata Duchesne ex Weston (1771)

 = Fragaria elatior var. magna (Thuill.) Mutel (1834), WFO Hautbois strawberry (mentioned as F. elatior, 'Hautbois strawberry'); HNE

🏶︎ Fragaria vesca L. (1753), WFO woodland strawberry; BD HNE

🏶︎ Fragaria virginiana Mill. (1768), WFO Virginia strawberry. HNE

Cited Verse:

TBC.

đŸœ± On sentiments: The sentiments applied to the bladder-senna are simple and universal: the fruits, or pods, of this tree are papery 'bladders' filled with air, and they are observed to be made the toys of idle play, especially by children.


Abécédaire de Flore

B. DelachĂ©naye, 1811 ◼︎


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Baguenaudier signifie paresse.


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