Prunus avium (European) and Prunus serotina (North American) Wild cherry trees native to Britain, most of Europe and western Asia.
Sweet cherries are one of the most popular spring-summer fruit species and mainly consumed as a fresh table fruit.
Sweet cherry for processing (other than brining) are harvest when fully mature.
It is known that sweet cherry have various antioxidants and its major phenolic antioxidants are anthocyanins, phenolic acids, flavonoids and flavn-3-ols (catechins).
A similar tree grows extensively in North American from southern Quebec and Ontario to Texas and central Florida, with population in Arizona and New Mexico.
Sweet cherry is grown almost everywhere in the temperate zone. It is a composite genus. Due to its origin, this genus needs warm and light condition, but can also endure cold winter weather.
The sweet cherry is a vigorous tree with strong apical control with an erect-pyrimidal canopy shape; grow to about 10-15 m (12-35 feet tall). In cultivation, sweet cherries are maintained less than 4 m in height.
Sweet cherry fruit
