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A cherry is the product of numerous plants of the sort Prunus, and is a meaty drupe (stone natural product).

Business cherries are gotten from cultivars of a few animal types, for example, the sweet Prunus avium and the sharp Prunus cerasus. The name 'cherry' likewise alludes to the cherry tree and its wood, and is in some cases applied to almonds and outwardly comparable blooming trees in the class Prunus, as in "fancy cherry" or "cherry bloom". Wild cherry may allude to any of the cherry species developing external development, in spite of the fact that Prunus avium is frequently alluded to explicitly by the name "wild cherry" in the British Isles.The English word cherry gets from Old Northern French or Norman cherise from the Latin cerasum,[1] alluding to an antiquated Greek area, Kerasous (Κερασοῦς) close to Giresun, Turkey, from which cherries were first idea to be sent out to Europe.[2] The indigenous scope of the sweet cherry reaches out through the vast majority of Europe, western Asia, and parts of northern Africa, and the natural product has been devoured all through its reach since ancient occasions. A developed cherry is recorded as having been brought to Rome by Lucius Licinius Lucullus from northeastern Anatolia, otherwise called the Pontus area, in 72 BC.[3]

Cherries were brought into England at Teynham, close to Sittingbourne in Kent, by request of Henry VIII, who had tasted them in Flanders.[4][5][6]

Cherries showed up in North America from the get-go in the settlement of Brooklyn, New York (at that point called "New Netherland") when the locale was under Dutch power. Exchanges individuals rented or bought land to plant plantations and produce gardens, "Testament of Corielis van Tienlioven that he had discovered 12 apple, 40 peach, 73 cherry trees, 26 sage plants.., behind the house sold by Anthony Jansen from Salee [Morocco, Africa] to Barent Dirksen [Dutchmen],... ANNO eighteenth of June 1639."[7]Many cherries are united to the subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, which is recognized by having the blossoms in little corymbs of a few together (not separately, nor in racemes), and by having smooth natural product with just a powerless furrow along one side, or no section. The subgenus is local to the mild areas of the Northern Hemisphere, with two species in America, three in Europe, and the rest of Asia. Other cherry organic products are borne on racemes and called winged creature cherries.Major business cherry plantations in Europe are in Turkey, Italy, Spain and other Mediterranean districts, and less significantly in the Baltic States and southern Scandinavia.

In France since the 1920s, the principal cherries of the period come in April/May from the area of Céret (Pyrénées-Orientales),[38] where the neighborhood makers send, as a custom since 1932, the primary container of cherries to the leader of the Republic.[39]

North America

See likewise: Cherry creation in Michigan

In the United States, most sweet cherries are filled in Washington, California, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Michigan.[40] Important sweet cherry cultivars incorporate Bing, Ulster, Rainier, Brooks, Tulare, King, and Sweetheart.[41] Both Oregon and Michigan give light-hued 'Regal Ann' ('Napoleon'; then again 'Sovereign Anne') cherries for the maraschino cherry cycle. Generally harsh (additionally called tart) cherries are filled in Michigan, trailed by Utah, New York, and Washington.[40] Sour cherries incorporate 'Nanking' and 'Evans'. Cross City, Michigan is known as the "Cherry Capital of the World",[42] facilitating a National Cherry Festival and making the world's biggest cherry pie. The particular district of northern Michigan known for tart cherry creation is alluded to as the "Navigate Bay" locale.

Most cherry assortments have a chilling necessity of at least 800 hours, implying that so as to break lethargy, bloom, and set organic product, the colder time of year season needs to have in any event 800 hours where the temperature is under 45 °F (7 °C). "Low chill" assortments requiring 300 hours or less are Minnie Royal and Royal Lee, requiring cross-pollinization, though the cultivar, Royal Crimson, is self-fertile.[43] These assortments broaden the scope of development of cherries to the gentle winter regions of southern US. This is a help to California makers of sweet cherries, as California is the second biggest maker of sweet cherries in the US.[44]

Local and non-local sweet cherries fill well in Canada's areas of Ontario and British Columbia where a yearly cherry celebration has been commended for seven successive a long time in the Okanagan Valley town of Osoyoos.[45] notwithstanding the Okanagan, other British Columbia cherry developing districts are the Similkameen Valley and Kootenay Valley, each of the three districts together delivering 5.5 million kg every year or 60% of absolute Canadian output.[46] Sweet cherry assortments in British Columbia incorporate 'Rainier', 'Van', 'Chelan', 'Lapins', 'Darling', 'Skeena', 'Staccato', 'Christalina' and 'Bing'.

Australia

In Australia, cherries are filled in all the states aside from the Northern Territory. The major delivering districts are situated in the mild zones inside New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. Western Australia has restricted creation in the raised parts in the southwest of the state. Key creation zones incorporate Young, Orange and Bathurst in New South Wales, Wandin, the Goulburn and Murray valley regions in Victoria, the Adelaide Hills locale in South Australia, and the Huon and Derwent Valleys in Tasmania.

Key business assortments arranged by irregularity incorporate 'Sovereign', 'Trader', 'Preeminent', 'Ron's seedling', 'Chelan', 'Ulster', 'Van', 'Bing', 'Stella', 'Nordwunder', 'Lapins', 'Simone', 'Regina', 'Kordia' and 'Darling'. New assortments are being presented, including the late season 'Staccato' and early season 'Sequoia'. The Australian Cherry Breeding project is building up a progression of new assortments which are under trying evaluation.[47]

The New South Wales town of Young is known as the "Cherry Capital of Australia" and hosts the National Cherry Festival.The list beneath contains numerous Prunus species that bear the normal name cherry, yet they are not really individuals from the subgenus Cerasus, or bear consumable natural product. For a total rundown of animal types, see List of Prunus species. Some basic names recorded here have verifiably been utilized for more than one animal types, for example "rock cherry" is utilized as an elective regular name for both P. prostrata and P. mahaleb and "wild cherry" is utilized for a few animal groups.

Prunus apetala (Siebold and Zucc.) Franch. and Sav. – clove cherry

Prunus avium (L.) L. – sweet cherry, wild cherry, mazzard or gean

Prunus campanulata Maxim. – Taiwan cherry, Formosan cherry or chime bloomed cherry

Prunus canescens Bois. – dim leaf cherry

Prunus caroliniana Aiton – Carolina shrub cherry or tree cherry

Prunus cerasoides D. Wear. – wild Himalayan cherry

Prunus cerasus L. – sharp cherry

Prunus × cistena Koehne – purple-leaf sand cherry

Prunus cornuta (Wall. ex Royle) Steud. – Himalayan winged animal cherry

Prunus cuthbertii Small – Cuthbert cherry

Prunus cyclamina Koehne – cyclamen cherry or Chinese blossoming cherry

Prunus dawyckensis Sealy – Dawyck cherry

Prunus dielsiana C.K. Schneid. – followed leaf cherry

Prunus emarginata (Douglas ex Hook.) Walp. – Oregon cherry or unpleasant cherry

Prunus eminens Beck – German: mittlere Weichsel (semisour cherry)

Prunus fruticosa Pall. – European bantam cherry, bantam cherry, Mongolian cherry or steppe cherry

Prunus gondouinii (Poit. and Turpin) Rehder – duke cherry

Prunus grayana Maxim. – Japanese winged animal cherry or Gray's fledgling cherry

Prunus humilis Bunge – Chinese plum-cherry or humble bramble cherry

Prunus ilicifolia (Nutt. ex Hook. and Arn.) Walp. – hollyleaf cherry, evergreen cherry, holly-leaved cherry or islay

Prunus incisa Thunb. – Fuji cherry

Prunus jamasakura Siebold ex Koidz. – Japanese mountain cherry or Japanese slope cherry

Prunus japonica Thunb. – Korean cherry

Prunus laurocerasus L. – cherry shrub

Prunus lyonii (Eastw.) Sarg. – Catalina Island cherry

Prunus maackii Rupr. – Manchurian cherry or Amur chokecherry

Prunus mahaleb L. – Saint Lucie cherry, rock cherry, perfumed cherry or mahaleb cherry

Prunus maximowiczii Rupr. – Miyama cherry or Korean cherry

Prunus mume (Siebold and Zucc.) – Chinese plum or Japanese apricot

Prunus myrtifolia (L.) Urb. – West Indian cherry

Prunus napaulensis (Ser.) Steud. – Nepal winged animal cherry

Prunus nipponica Matsum. – Takane cherry, top cherry or Japanese high cherry

Prunus occidentalis Sw. – western cherry shrub

Prunus padus L. – winged animal cherry or European fledgling cherry

Prunus pensylvanica L.f. – pin cherry, fire cherry, or wild red cherry

Prunus pleuradenia Griseb. – Antilles cherry

Prunus prostrata Labill. – mountain cherry, rock cherry, spreading cherry or prostrate cherry

Prunus pseudocerasus Lindl. – Chinese sharp cherry or bogus cherry

Prunus pumila L. – sand cherry

Prunus rufa Wall ex Hook.f. – Himalayan cherry

Prunus salicifolia Kunth. (=P. serotina) – capulin, Singapore cherry or jungle cherry

Prunus sargentii Rehder – Sargent's cherry

Prunus serotina Ehrh. – dark cherry, wild cherry

Prunus serrula Franch. – paperbark cherry, birch bark cherry or Tibetan cherry

Prunus serrulata Lindl. – Japanese cherry, slope cherry, Oriental cherry or East Asian cherry

Prunus speciosa (Koidz.) Ingram – Oshima cherry

Prunus ssiori F.Schmidt – Hokkaido winged animal cherry

Prunus stipulacea Maxim.

Prunus subhirtella Miq. – Higan cherry or spring cherry

Prunus takesimensis Nakai – Takeshima blossoming cherry

Prunus tomentosa Thunb. – Nanking cherry, Manchu cherry, wool cherry, Shanghai cherry, Ando cherry, mountain cherry, Chinese bantam cherry, Chinese shrubbery cherry

Prunus verecunda (Koidz.) Koehne – Korean mountain cherry

Prunus virginiana L. – chokecherry

Prunus × yedoensis Matsum. – Yoshino

Crude sweet cherries are 82% water, 16% starches, 1% protein, and unimportant in fat (table). As crude natural product.