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Variety of Wild cherry · Prunus avium
World's best-known dark commercial cherry with large, firm, juicy fruit.
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Taste & characteristics
Taste
firmjuicysweet
Profile
- Parentage
- Sämling aus Republican/Black Republican
- Breeder
- Seth Lewelling / Ah Bing
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 11 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Very large, heart-shaped, deep mahogany-red fruit with firm, juicy, sweet flesh.
Growth
Vigorous, upright; demanding on climate and pollination.
Yield
High in suitable sites; the leading North American commercial cherry.
Notes
Self-sterile. Crack-prone in rain; needs warm, dry ripening weather.
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