Latin name: cerasum and Cerasus.

English name: cherry

Alias : carrion, warbler peach, thorn peach, wedge peach, English peach, cow peach, cherry bead, peach, onyx

Family

Border: Plantae

Portal: Angiospermae Magnoliophyta

Organism: Dicotyledon Magnoliopsida

Organism: Rosaceae

Family: Rosaceae

Subfamily: Plum Subfamily: Prunoideae

Genera: Plum Prunus

Subgenera: Cherry Chestnut

Subgenera: Cherry Chestnut

Subgenera: Cherry Chestnut

Subgenus: Cherry Cerasus

Summary

Cherry belongs to the family Rosaceae deciduous tree fruit trees. Cherries are bright red in color when ripe, delicate, beautiful in taste and shape, rich in nutrients and high in health care value, and are also known as "peach". Our country as a fruit tree cultivation of cherry has Chinese cherry, sweet cherry, sour cherry and hairy cherry. Cherry ripening period is early, has the reputation of the first fruit in early spring. China's cherry production of 35 million kg, per capita only 29g, equivalent to each person has 3 big cherries or Chinese cherries 15 - 17. Visible cherry has a broad market prospects. China's cultivation of sweet cherry varieties mainly for Europe and the United States varieties, in China's northern region performance is very good, due to the European sweet cherry generally need to 7.2 ° C below the low temperature of 900 ~ 1400 hours before the completion of the winter dormancy, limiting the large-scale cultivation in the south of China. As a result, in the southern provinces and regions of China are still dominated by Chinese cherry cultivars, at the same time, there are very few good varieties of Chinese cherry, and the cultivars generally show many shortcomings such as small fruits, sour flavor, pre-picking fruit cracking, fruit drop and so on. And Chinese cherry excellent varieties of a black pearl selection and breeding, successfully make up for these shortcomings.

Wild cherry in Asia and Europe each have two big varieties, there is no connection with each other, and later other cherries are cultivated. In the world mainly in the northern hemisphere distribution, in the domestic mainly produced in Liaoning, Hebei, Shaanxi, Gansu, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan. Born in sunny places on mountain slopes or along ditches, often cultivated, 300-600 m above sea level.

Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province, has the largest cherry base in northwest China - Cherry Gully, and holds a cherry festival in late April every year. Zhenning Buyi Miaozu Autonomous County in Anshun City, Guizhou Province, China, produces this fruit.