Cherries are the fruit of the cherry tree.

The cherry tree is a deciduous small tree, the canopy is relatively scattered, the flowering period of the cherry tree is in March every year, the fruiting period is in May-June, every time the cherry will be picked and on the market. Its fruit size is not very large, diameter between 1-2 cm, color bright red taste sweet, loved by the people, but also rich in ingredients.

Cherry, Rosaceae plum perennial woody plants, gray-white bark, gray-brown or gray-brown branches, shoots green; leaves are ovate; inflorescences umbellate, petals for the obovate, white or pink; fruit subglobose, red after maturity. The Materia Medica Compendium" records: "its Ying like pearl, so it is called cherry, and Xu Shen as Ying peach, cloud warbler contained food, so also said that the peach, also Tong", so the name cherry.

Cherry introduction

Cherry is native to China, is now mainly distributed in China, Jiangsu, Shandong and other places, Northeast, Yunnan is also cultivated; in Europe, Asia and North America and other places have distribution. Cherry is often born in the forest, scrub and grassland in the sunny part of the mountain slopes; it likes warm environment, cold resistance, humidity, fertilizer, and sandy loam with deep, loose and well ventilated soil. Cherry propagation is mainly seed propagation, artificial more use of planting, pressing, cuttings and other methods of propagation of seedlings.

Cherry can represent a lot of good things, can represent a particularly energetic girls, can represent a very vivid love, it not only symbolizes love, happiness and sweetness, more implies the meaning of cherish. Cherry English name cherry, phonetic translation of Chelsea, meaning cherish. Cherry is often used by famous masters to express different artistic techniques in ancient and modern art creations, for example, the late Chinese painting master Qi Baishi, the contemporary post contemporary art master Ma Yixing.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Cherry (Rosaceae)