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Branch of a Rainier cherry tree. Rainier (/ r eɪ ˈ n ɪər / 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 ...
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 ...
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. [2]
The flowers give rise to reddish-black "berries" fed on by birds, [4] 5–10 millimetres (1 ⁄ 4 – 3 ⁄ 8 in) in diameter. [6] [7] For about its first decade the bark of a black cherry tree is thin, smooth, and banded, resembling a birch. A mature tree has very broken, dark gray to black bark. The leaves are long and shiny, resembling a ...
This summer, “Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner was spotted poolside in the Côte d’Azur wearing a set of blue and white striped pajamas; while model Joan Smalls wore a black and white ...
The chokecherry is closely related to the black cherry (Prunus serotina) of eastern North America, which can reach 30 m (100 ft) tall and has larger leaves and darker fruit. The chokecherry leaf has a finely serrated margin and is dark green above with a paler underside, while the black cherry leaf has numerous blunt edges along its margin and ...
Prunus alabamensis, the Alabama cherry [3] or Alabama black cherry, [4] is an uncommon to rare species of tree in the rose family endemic to parts of the Southeastern United States. [5] It is closely related to and found wholly within the range of Prunus serotina , [ 6 ] the black cherry, a more common and widespread species of Prunus also ...
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