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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 .
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 Eurasia and naturalized elsewhere. It is an ancestor of P. cerasus (sour cherry). All parts of the plant except for the ripe fruit are slightly toxic, containing cyanogenic glycosides.
Prunus cerasus (sour cherry, [3] tart cherry, or dwarf cherry) [4] is an Old World species of Prunus in the subgenus Cerasus . It has two main groups of cultivars : the dark-red Morello cherry and the lighter-red Amarelle cherry .
The Evans Cherry cultivar grows from 12 to 14 feet (3.7 to 4.3 m) – other sour cherries are taller – with abundant white blossoms in spring, bright red fruit at an average weight of 0.15 ounces (4.4 grams), and juice that is pink-tinted to clear.
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 africana, the African cherry, [1] ... The fruit is a drupe, red to brown, 7–13 mm (0.3–0.5 in), wider than long, two-lobed, with a seed in each lobe. It ...
Prunus padus, known as bird cherry, hackberry (unrelated to the genus Celtis), hagberry, or Mayday tree, is a flowering plant in the rose family. It is a species of cherry , a deciduous small tree or large shrub up to 16 metres (52 ft) tall.
However, detailed DNA studies revealed that they were complex interspecific hybrids with the Oshima cherry, so they are classified as the Prunus Sato-zakura group or Cerasus Sato-zakura group. [4] [12] [5] 'Kanzan' is the most popular Japanese cherry tree cultivar for cherry blossom viewing in Europe and North America.