These leaflets are 1.0-6.5 cm long, elliptic or ovate, rounded to more commonly pointed at the tip, rounded or narrowed to a short-stalked base. Leaf blades is 1-7 cm long, broadly ovate-triangular in outline, divided into 3 similar leaflets. Petioles are 6 cm long, antrorsely pubescent. Stipules are 4-9 mm long, herbaceous, narrowly oblong-elliptic, hairy, those of the rosette leaves fused toward the base. Leaves are alternate, long-petiolate and trifoliate. Root spreads horizontally and forms new roots at each node. The plant spreads along creeping stolons, rooting and producing crowns at each node. The plant is found growing in grassy slopes, ravines in low mountains, meadows, shaded woodlands, lawns, agricultural areas, natural forests, planted forests, riparian zones, disturbed and wetlands. Mock strawberry is a low growing, fast spreading, creeping herbaceous, perennial plant that grows about 25-90 cm long. Its fruit are readily dispersed by birds and it spreads laterally via creeping stems (i.e. it is present in the Irrawong Reserve in the Sydney region). It tends to grow in wetter sites and is sometimes found in conservation areas (e.g. in the wider Sydney and Blue Mountains region) and Victoria. Mock strawberry is regarded as a sleeper weed or minor environmental weed in some parts of New South Wales (e.g. However, the plant is used extensively as a medicinal herb, since it contains protein, iron, vitamin C and other healthy elements.
The fruits and leaves of mock strawberry are edible, but may not taste as delicious as true strawberries. It has been naturalized in many regions, including parts of the United States.įalse strawberry, Indian strawberry, Indian mock-strawberry, mock strawberry, old-world strawberry, wild Indian strawberry, wild strawberry, yellow-flowered strawberry and rock strawberry are few of the popular common names of the plant. Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines), and has been introduced to many other areas as a medicinal and an ornamental plant. Bhutan, India, Nepal and Pakistan), Afghanistan, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and south-eastern Asia (i.e. The plant is native to Indian Sub-continent (i.e. It has yellow flowers, unlike the white or slightly pink flowers of true strawberries. It has foliage and a collective accessory fruit similar to that of a true strawberry. They have similar leaves and fruits, but mock strawberry produces yellow flowers while wild strawberries have white flowers. The plant is often confused with wild strawberry. Duchesnea indica (sometimes called Potentilla indica), known commonly by the names mock strawberry, Indian strawberry, or false strawberry, is a flowering plant belonging to family Rosaceae.
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