Strawberries are a kind of fruit harvested in spring. Unlike other fruit trees, they don't have tall and straight trunks and branches. They are unremarkable in appearance, crawling on the ground like small grasses. In the natural wild environment, they start to produce thumb-sized red fruits in May, which are bright and lovely, sweet and juicy, and become a favorite of many people. Those who have planted strawberries know that when they are grown in sunny and well-drained soil, each two strawberry plants can maintain sufficient space between them, even more than half a meter apart. They look sparse, but by the second and third years, the ground will be completely covered by the green leaves of strawberries. This is because strawberries have creeping stems that can crawl on the ground while continuously growing adventitious roots. These adventitious roots can penetrate the soil and quickly take root to sprout new plants. In this way, strawberries rely on the "creeping reproduction" of their creeping stems to quickly multiply from one plant to two, and then from two to four...
The creeping stems of strawberries are actually a type of modified stem. Botany defines them as: slender and weak stems that lie flat on the ground and grow sprawlingly, with generally longer internodes and the ability to produce adventitious roots at the nodes. In addition to strawberries, there are many plants with creeping stems, such as sweet potatoes, snakeberries, and hanging orchids.