Ī cherry tree will take three to four years once it is planted in the orchard to produce its first crop of fruit, and seven years to attain full maturity. Sour cherries require no pollenizer, while few sweet varieties are self-fertile. Hand picking is also widely used for sweet as well as sour cherries to harvest the fruit to avoid damage to both fruit and trees.Ĭommon rootstocks include Mazzard, Mahaleb, Colt, and Gisela Series, a dwarfing rootstock that produces trees significantly smaller than others, only 8 to 10 feet (2.5 to 3 meters) tall. In commercial production, sour cherries, as well as sweet cherries sometimes, are harvested by using a mechanized "shaker". Nonetheless, demand is high for the fruit. Irrigation, spraying, labor, and their propensity to damage from rain and hail make cherries relatively expensive. Some other species, although having edible fruit, are not grown extensively for consumption, except in northern regions where the two main species will not grow. Both species originate in Europe and western Asia they usually do not cross-pollinate. cerasus), which is used mainly for cooking. avium) to which most cherry cultivars belong, and the sour cherry ( P. The cultivated forms are of the species sweet cherry ( P. Trades people leased or purchased land to plant orchards and produce gardens, "Certificate of Corielis van Tienlioven that he had found 12 apple, 40 peach, 73 cherry trees, 26 sage plants., behind the house sold by Anthony Janszoon van Salee (from Salee ) to Barent Dirksen. Ĭherries arrived in North America early in the settlement of Brooklyn, New York (then called "New Netherland") when the region was under Dutch sovereignty. Ĭherries were introduced into England at Teynham, near Sittingbourne in Kent, by order of Henry VIII, who had tasted them in Flanders. A cultivated cherry is recorded as having been brought to Rome by Lucius Licinius Lucullus from northeastern Anatolia, also known as the Pontus region, in 72 BC.
The indigenous range of the sweet cherry extends through most of Europe, western Asia, and parts of northern Africa, and the fruit has been consumed throughout its range since prehistoric times. The English word cherry derives from Old Northern French or Norman cherise from the Latin cerasum, referring to an ancient Greek region, Kerasous (Κερασοῦς) near Giresun, Turkey, from which cherries were first thought to be exported to Europe. The Cherry Seller, by Sara Troost (18th Century Netherlands)
– Taiwan cherry, Formosan cherry or bell-flowered cherry – sweet cherry, wild cherry, mazzard or gean Prunus apetala (Siebold & Zucc.) Franch.maacki), and by having smooth fruit with no obvious groove. serrula some species with short racemes, e.g. They are known as true cherries and distinguished by having a single winter bud per axil, by having the flowers in small corymbs or umbels of several together (occasionally solitary, e.g. Cerasus contains species that are typically called cherries. Prunus cerasus, sour cherry (a true cherry species)
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