FIG. 9-1. Fruit and flower of the Ambato strawberry in Guachi, Ecuador (right). Note the long coni, shape of the fruit in contrast to its globose to globose-conic shape in Maryland (below). Note also the clasping calyx characteristic of F. chiloensis This variety has probably been grown in Ecuado: for nearly four hundred years, having been take to Peru in 1557 by the Spanish from Chile as seed or plants the year after the Spanish reached Chile in 1556. (After Popenoe)
