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In another version, the tree received its name because it was first discovered growing near a railway line between Turi and Sammichele di Bari. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Ferrovia is the most widely grown cherry in Italy, [ 2 ] and is also grown in northern Greece.
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 ...
It is thought that cherries first originated in Turkey, near the Black Sea. Cultivation has been credited to the Greeks who helped the fruit spread through the Roman Empire and to England, [3] where cherry trees were used as a food source and also for timber. [9] Sweet cherry trees were initially taken to the United States with the colonists in ...
The Regina was developed at the Jork Fruit Research Station in Germany, and is considered the most successful sweet cherry cultivar to have been developed there. [1] First introduced in 1998, Regina is a cross of the 'Schneiders Spate Knorpelkirsche' and 'Rube' cultivars. [2] Apart from Europe, it is also grown commercially in Oregon [3]
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]
Prunus avium, sweet cherry P. cerasus, sour cherry Germersdorfer variety cherry tree in blossom. Prunus subg.Cerasus contains species that are typically called cherries. They are known as true cherries [1] and distinguished by having a single winter bud per axil, by having the flowers in small corymbs or umbels of several together (occasionally solitary, e.g. P. serrula; some species with ...
The North Star cherry is a sour cherry tree. [1] A dwarf cultivar, it typically grows 8 to 10 feet tall. [2] Both the skin and flesh are a deep red. The North Star is excellent for baking, and makes superb wine. Developed by the University of Minnesota, (the "North Star State"), [3] [4] [5] it is self-pollinizing (meaning only one tree is ...
The 'Ulster' cherry is a midseason cultivar. The dark red fruit is firm and large, sometimes measuring more than one inch in diameter. Its fruit has a strong resistance to cracking brought about by pre-harvest rains, and the trees growing the Ulster cherry have been documented as showing a higher resistance to southwest trunk winter injury, cherry leaf spot and the late spring frosts that can ...