Mara des Bois
A perpetual (everbearing) strawberry: instead of one concentrated crop it fruits in flushes from midsummer to autumn. Total yield is lower than a summer-fruiting cultivar; the flavour, with a wild-strawberry character, is why people grow it.
A cultivar of Strawberry. Everything on this page is about the cultivar; how to grow the species is on the plant page, and how big the tree gets is on the rootstock page.
Names and origin
- Origin
- France, late 20th century
Pollination
What this cultivar needs before it will set a crop.
- Self-fertility
- Self-fertile
source
Sourced guidancehigh confidence
- Royal Horticultural Society: Strawberry — pollination
Checked 2026-08-13
- Partner
- No partner needed
source
Sourced guidancehigh confidence
- Royal Horticultural Society: Strawberry — pollination
Checked 2026-08-13
- Ploidy
- diploid
source
Horticultural consensusmoderate confidence
- NIAB — National Institute of Agricultural Botany: Cultivar ploidy records
Checked 2026-08-13
- Partners needed
- none
Partners for Mara des Bois, from the 4 strawberry cultivars GrowingHQ holds
Computed by the pollination engine from the flowering groups, ploidy and recorded pairings on each record — not a hand-written list. The scope is exactly what the heading says: these are the answers that exist in this catalogue, not the answers that exist.
No partner is required
Mara des Bois sets a crop on its own pollen. The table below is still computed, because a compatible neighbour does no harm and a grower planting two trees may want to know which pairs work.
No compatible partner in this catalogue
That is a statement about GrowingHQ’s coverage rather than about the cultivar. A nursery list will contain compatible cultivars this catalogue does not hold — the pollination mechanisms page explains how to work one out.
3 further cultivars return no verdict, because a flowering group or an incompatibility group is not recorded on one side. The engine reports that rather than assuming a value: Cambridge Favourite, Honeoye, Symphony.
The fruit
- Season
- Late
source
Sourced guidancehigh confidence
- Royal Horticultural Society: Strawberry cultivars — season
Checked 2026-08-13
- Use
- Eating
source
Sourced guidancehigh confidence
- Royal Horticultural Society: Strawberry cultivars — use
Checked 2026-08-13
- Keeping
- Eat within days
source
Sourced guidancehigh confidence
- Royal Horticultural Society: Strawberry cultivars — storage
Checked 2026-08-13
The plant
- Vigour
- Average vigour
source
Sourced guidancehigh confidence
- Royal Horticultural Society: Strawberry cultivars — vigour
Checked 2026-08-13
- Habit
- Spreading
source
Horticultural consensusmoderate confidence
- Royal Horticultural Society: Strawberry cultivars — habit
Checked 2026-08-13
- Cropping
- Crops regularly
source
Sourced guidancehigh confidence
- Royal Horticultural Society: Strawberry cultivars — cropping
Checked 2026-08-13
Cultivar record reviewed 2026-08-13.