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Variety of cherry trees
When selecting the variety, you should not only focus on the fruit characteristics, appearance, taste, shape, size and ripening time. Rather, the site conditions and resistance to diseases and pests should determine the choice.
Next article Cherry trees enrich native gardensThe sweet cherry (prunus avium) and sour cherry (prunus cerasus) both belong to the genus Prunus in the rose family. The species of sweet cherry are cartilage cherry and heart cherry. The sour cherry is available as shrub seed and as Baumweichsel. The sweet cherries have smooth, shiny skin and firm, often bright flesh. The fruits of sour cherries are soft and juicy with dark red flesh.
The cherry trees bring abundant fruit only if possible, if numerous flowers are fertilized. The self-infertile varieties only produce fruit if they are fertilized by a foreign variety of the same species. Even with the self-pollinated varieties, a suitable type of pollinator in the neighborhood has a positive effect on the yield.
sweet cherry
One of the oldest types of cartilaginous cherries is the Great Black Cartilage Cherry, which originates from France and is nowadays widespread. Its popularity is due to the sweetness of its fruits and its regularly high yields. However, this is a strongly awake cherry tree, which needs a suitable Befruchtersorte. It is a mid to late variety.
The very early and therefore largely spared variety of the cherry fruit fly infestation is Kassin's Early Cherry - a healthy, robust cherry variety from Werder. It also needs a fertilization partner, grows medium to strong and consistently delivers good yields. Other well-known sweet cherry varieties are:
Sour cherry varieties
The most well-known, most cultivated, very old sour cherry variety is the Schattenmorelle, not least because it delivers high yields with relatively little care. Its fruit is used for the production of jams and for the cake coating. It has the characteristic sour taste and is very juicy.
The shade morello, which also thrives in not particularly warm locations, is a weakly growing tree or shrub for small home gardens. Like most sour cherry varieties, it is self-pollinating and suitable as a pollinator for other varieties of cherry that flower at the same time. The variety Köröser Vistula - a high-growing tree - is also known for its low site requirements. Other sour cherry varieties are:
Tips & Tricks
Who has no room for several cherry trees, it can also try with a "family tree". These are offered in the online trade and contain three different cherry varieties on a tree.