Sweet cherry

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Sweet Cherry

Sweet cherry (Prunus avium), also known as wild cherry or gean, is a species of cherry native to Europe, western Turkey, northwestern Africa, and western Asia, from the British Isles 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 western Himalaya.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /swiːt ˈtʃɛri/

Etymology

The term "cherry" comes from the French word "cerise", which comes in turn from the Latin words cerasum and Cerasus, the latter a place in Turkey from whence cherries were first thought to be exported to Europe.

Description

The sweet cherry is a deciduous tree growing to 15–32 m (49–105 ft) tall, with a trunk up to 1.5 m (5 ft) in diameter. The leaves are oval and the flowers are white. The fruit is a drupe 1–2 cm in diameter (larger in some cultivated selections), bright red to dark purple when mature in midsummer.

Related Terms

  • Cherry: A small, round stone fruit that is typically bright or dark red.
  • Prunus: A genus of trees and shrubs, which includes the plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and almonds.
  • Drupe: An indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin, and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the pit, stone, or pyrene) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside.
  • Deciduous: A tree or shrub shedding its leaves annually.

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