No such concentrated ambrosia ever graced the feasts of the Olympian gods, for they were restricted to the humble Fragaria vesca, or Alpine species.

The Alpine strawberry ( Fragaria vesca), which grows wild throughout the northern hemisphere, does not appear capable of much variation and development under cultivation.

As we have seen, the Fragaria vesca, or the Alpine species of Europe, is substantially the same to-day as it was a thousand years ago.

The first, and for a long time the only one of which we have any record, is the Fragaria vesca, or the "Alpine" strawberry.

Fragaria vesca was used as a completely self-compatible reference sample, and the genome-wide variations were identified and subsequently annotated.