Duchesnea chrysantha
StarDuchesnea chrysantha
Western Herbalism Properties
Traditional Uses
In traditional Chinese medicine the whole plant of mock strawberry is used for "clearing heat" and "cooling the blood," applied to swellings, abscesses, snakebite and sore throat (Chinese Materia Medica; cf. Potentilla indica). The fresh fruit is edible but bland.
Botanical Description
Duchesnea chrysantha, a mock or false strawberry of the family Rosaceae, is a low, creeping perennial herb native to East and South Asia. It is closely allied to (and often treated within) Duchesnea/Potentilla indica, spreading by slender stolons that root at the nodes to form mats. The leaves are trifoliate with toothed, ovate leaflets borne on long petioles. Solitary yellow flowers arise on axillary stalks, each with five petals subtended by a conspicuous leafy epicalyx whose lobes are usually larger and toothed at the tip. After flowering the receptacle swells into a small, red, strawberry-like aggregate fruit studded with tiny achenes; though edible the fruit is nearly tasteless and dry compared with true strawberries. It grows in grassy places, roadsides, woodland edges and disturbed ground, flowering in spring and summer, and is widely naturalized beyond its native range.
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