Strawberries are a member of the rose family

Strawberries are a member of the rose family. The garden strawberry, Fragaria × ananassa, belongs to the roses family. The scientific classification is;

Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Subfamily: Rosoideae
Genus: Fragaria
Species: F. × ananassa

The Rosaceae is the rose family. Even more surprisingly might be the fact that also apples, apricots, plums, cherries, peaches, pears, raspberries and even almonds belong to the rose family.

Source: Wikipedia

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