Pineberry is a white strawberry cultivar with red seeds and a pineapple-like flavor.
Description
Pineberry is a hybrid cross from
Fragaria chiloensis and
Fragaria virginiana.
A pineberry is smaller than a common strawberry, measuring between . When ripe, it is almost completely white, but with red
achenes (the seeds). The plant is disease-resistant, and highly priced, although not profitable due to small-scale farming, small berry size and low yield.
Pineberries are harvested in the spring and summer. First identified in South America around 2002, pineberries are cultivated in
Belgium and exported from the
Netherlands.
Marketing
The fruit was dubbed "pineberry" for the
United Kingdom market where it became available in 2010 to reflect its pineapple-like flavor, while still being a strawberry.
Pineberries were first sold commercially in the
United States in 2012,
and were marketed to restaurants, bakeries and wholesale markets in
Europe and
Dubai.
See also
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Fragaria nilgerrensis, a wild species of no commercial value that has white fruit
