An Israeli farmer has grown the world’s heaviest strawberry, based on Guinness World Data.
“It was uplifting. We’ve been ready for it for a very long time,” mentioned Chahi Ariel, who discovered the record-breaking strawberry on the Ariel household farm, situated within the Kadima-Zoran native council, a 12 months in the past.
At 289 grams, the strawberry was about 5 occasions the common weight of a berry of this selection, mentioned Nir Dai, a researcher and strawberry breeder at Israel’s Volcani Institute the place the pressure was developed.
The strawberry was 18 cm lengthy, 4 cm thick and 34 cm in circumference, based on the file e-book’s web site. It regarded like a number of berries fused on the inexperienced leafy cap, forming the form of a hand-held fan.
Chilly climate situations in early 2021 slowed the record-breaking strawberry’s ripening course of, permitting it to proceed gaining weight, Ariel added.
This sort of strawberry, referred to as Ilan, tends to develop massive, and temperature extremely impacts its progress, mentioned Dai. The fruit is heaviest within the winter, and might weigh as much as 60 grams, he added.
The large strawberry was discovered a 12 months in the past and stored in a freezer till now, when the file was confirmed, Ariel mentioned.
The earlier file was held by a Japanese farmer who found a strawberry weighing 250 grams in his harvest in 2015.
(Reuters)