Cherry Tree Sapling Looks Like:
Cherry Tree Introduction:
Cherry trees are of the family Rosaceae, genus Li, and are deciduous trees or bushy shrubs. Cherry is also known as warbling peach, containing peach, cow peach, Zhu Cherry, wheat cherry, wax cherry, cliff honey and so on. Cherry tree Rosaceae plum genus deciduous small trees, up to 8 m high. leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic, 7 ~ 12cm long, apex acute, base rounded, margins with varying sizes of heavy serration, glandular between teeth, glabrous or slightly hairy above, sparsely pilose abaxially. Flowers white, ca. 1.5~2.5cm in diameter, calyx tube hairy; 3~6 clusters in racemes. Fruit subglobose, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, red. Flowering in March, first flowering and then growing leaves; fruit ripening in May-June.
Distribution
Cherries cultivated in China can be divided into four major categories, namely, Chinese cherries, sweet cherries, sour cherries and hairy cherries, with Chinese cherries and sweet cherries as the main cultivation objects. Chinese cherry is widely distributed in China, from Liaoning in the north, south to Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, west to Gansu, Xinjiang are planted, but in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Beijing, Hebei is more. Northeast, northwest of the cold areas planted more for the hairy cherry. There are about fifty varieties of cherries in China, and the main good varieties are "short-stalked cherries" in Zhuji, Zhejiang, "yellow jade cherries" in Longkou, Shandong, "golden red cherries" in Taihe, Anhui, and "drooping cherries" in Nanjing, Jiangsu. Nanjing's "drooping cherry", Sichuan's "Hanyuan cherry" and so on. In addition, there are Liaoning, Yantai and other places to introduce the large and sweet European cherry. But the history is relatively short, only a hundred years. Cherry tree in the middle of the year, after budding, flowering, fruiting, defoliation, dormancy and other processes, year after year, each year becomes an annual cycle, life expectancy of fifty to seventy years, the higher can reach more than one hundred years. Every year in mid-February, cherry flowers and leaves sprout almost simultaneously. More than ten days after flowering, green, small spherical fruit hanging on the branches, if the weather is warm and hot, a few spring rains, a few days of spring sunshine, the fruit in the blink of an eye red.