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Variety of Wild cherry · Prunus avium

Robust, crack-resistant black cherry and valued pollinizer.

🇨🇦 Canada 1953Dessert

Taste & characteristics

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Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Medium-large, black-red fruit with firm flesh and good crack resistance.

Vigorous, upright; robust and frost-hardy.

Medium to high; widely used universal pollinizer.

Self-sterile. Late-flowering and a good pollen source for many varieties.

Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Wild cherry unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page

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