Carole Collen’s penis-shaped strawberry will be sold at a charity raffle in Kent (Picture: SWNS)

Growing strawberries in your garden is normally a family-friendly experience, unless you’re Carole Collen.

The 52-year-old got a pleasant surprise when she noticed a penis-shaped strawberry growing in her vegetable patch.

A never-ending source for amusement in the family, the seedy strawberry is now being stored in the fridge and will be sold at a charity raffle.

Locals have praised her generosity, as other gardeners have tried to reap the fruit from their oddly-shaped produce by charging people to see it. Two years ago, a gardener in Brazil was selling footage of genitalia-shaped passion fruit for £8 a pop.


Ms Collen thought it was odd that the fruit had naturally developed that way. At first, she believed that snails had been nibbling away at the crops beforehand.



The gardener, from Dartford in Kent, does have one qualm about the provocative strawberry.

‘I did think it was a bit small,’ she admits. ‘It would have been nice if it grew a bit bigger.’