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Scientific Name: Potentilla indica
Synonym: Duchesnea indica (Currently unaccepted)
English Name: Mock Strawberry, Indian Strawberry, Wild Strawberry
Local/Bangla Name: Jongli Strawberry (জংলি স্ট্রবেরি)
Photo: Alessandro Bergamo (iNaturalist )
Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Description:
This perennial herb spreads prostrate via slender, creeping stems with runners, covered in silky hairs. Its leaves are digitately 3-5 foliate, with ovate to obovate leaflets that are double-toothed or serrate, cuneate at the base, and have ciliate margins. Flowers are solitary, long-pedunculate, polygamous, and pentamerous, with yellow petals. The fruit is spherical or oblong, turning bright red as it matures, resembling a small, round strawberry but spongy and tasteless.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
It typically grows in rice fields, along riverbanks, and in the margins of lakes, ponds, and swamps, and is widely distributed across Bangladesh.
Environment:
Freshwater.
Comments:
It is a marginal aquatic weed
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