Fragaria × vescana is a hybrid strawberry cultivar that was created in an effort to combine the best traits of the garden strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa), which has large berries and vigorous plants, with the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca), which has an exquisite flavour, but small berries.
Plants of the World Online considers it an unplaced taxon – "names that cannot be accepted, nor can they be put into synonymy.
This mutant was then crossed with a Fragaria × ananassa plant, and vigorous fertile offspring were obtained.
Fragaria × vescana is not yet commercially important, but remains under development.
The following decaploid strawberries were released by the Swedish breeding program at Balsgård: German F. × vescana cultivars: