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A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit). Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet Prunus avium and the sour Prunus cerasus. The name 'cherry' also refers to the cherry tree and its wood, and is sometimes applied to almonds and visually similar ...
Prunus avium, commonly called wild cherry, [3] sweet cherry [3] or gean [3] is a species of cherry, a flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae.It is native to Europe, Anatolia, Maghreb, and Western Asia, from the British Isles [4] south to Morocco and Tunisia, north to the Trondheimsfjord region in Norway and east to the Caucasus and northern Iran, with a small isolated population in the ...
Prunus africana. Prunus subg. Cerasus. Prunus africana, the African cherry, [1] has a wide distribution in Africa, occurring in montane regions of central and southern Africa and on the islands of Bioko, São-Tomé, Grande Comore, and Madagascar. [5] It can be found at 900–3,400 m (3,000–10,000 ft) above sea level.
Prunus semperflorens Ehrh. Prunus cerasus (sour cherry, [3] tart cherry, or dwarf cherry[4]) is a species of Prunus in the subgenus Cerasus (cherries), native to much of Europe, North Africa and West Asia. It is closely related to the sweet cherry (Prunus avium), but has a fruit that is more acidic. Its sour pulp is edible.
Bing cherry. Bing is a cultivar of the wild or sweet cherry (Prunus avium) that originated in the Pacific Northwest, in Milwaukie, Oregon, United States. The Bing remains a major cultivar in Oregon, [ 1 ] Washington, California, [ 1 ] Wisconsin [ 1 ] and British Columbia. It is the most produced variety of sweet cherry in the United States.
Rainier (/ reɪˈnɪər / ray-NEER) is a cultivar of cherry. It was developed in 1952 at Washington State University by Harold Fogle, and named after Mount Rainier. It is a cross between the Bing and Van cultivars. [1] Rainiers are considered a premium type of cherry. They are sweet with a thin skin and thick creamy-yellow flesh.
Prunus pumila, commonly called sand cherry, is a North American species of cherry in the rose family.It is widespread in eastern and central Canada from New Brunswick west to Saskatchewan and the northern United States from Maine to Montana, south as far as Colorado, Kansas, Indiana, and Virginia, with a few isolated populations in Tennessee and Utah.
Prunus laurocerasus is an evergreen shrub or small to medium-sized tree, growing to 5 to 15 metres (16 to 49 ft) tall, rarely to 18 metres (59 ft), with a trunk up to 60 cm broad. The leaves are dark green, leathery, shiny, (5–)10–25 (–30) cm long and 4–10 cm broad, with a finely serrated margin. The leaves can have the scent of almonds ...