This is probably the most popular sweet
cherry cultivar.
Neilsen and colleagues Denise Neilsen, Frank Kappel, and T. Forge from the Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada, Pacific Agri - Food Research Centre, conducted research to determine the response of two sweet
cherry cultivars to a variety of nutrient and water management strategies (HortScience, February 2014).
Sweet
cherry cultivars are the most popular for direct consumption, and are distinctively separated in three groups: dark, red, and yellow.
Other commercially - significant tart
cherry cultivars are «Surefire», «Balaton», «Northstar», and «Meteor».
Other significant dark
cherry cultivars are «Cowiche», «Kiona», «Lapins», «Regina», «Santina», «Selah», and «Tieton».
While sweet cherry (Prunus avium), black cherry (Prunus serotina), and tart cherry (Prunus cerasus) varieties occur naturally in the wild, when it comes to commercial cherries, centuries of man - made hybridization have brought many
cherry cultivars, each one with unique characteristics, from size and shape of the trees to flavor and sugar content.
Not exact matches
Research was conducted in a sweet
cherry orchard of «Cristalina» and «Skeena»
cultivars on the dwarfing rootstock Gisela 6 at the Pacific Agri - Food Research Center in Summerland.
Research showed that wet conditions (as indicated for the
cultivars under test) reduced annual yield of sweet
cherry, strongly affecting fruit quality, and often overriding
cultivar and soil and water management effects.
With a mild, sweet flavor derived from 16 - 19 % sugar, this
cultivar bears very firm
cherries, large in size, with a flat heart shape, light red blush over a yellow background, and near - clear flesh.
A popular European
cultivar, it grows medium to large dark red
cherries that are slightly sweeter than Montmorency.
Solanum capsicastrum (winter
cherry or false Jerusalem
cherry) has been considered a different species, but now it is mostly defined as only a variant
cultivar; the leaves are greyish green and the berries are brighter; it may be somewhat less toxic than traditional Jerusalem
cherry, but this often depends on the individual plant