Cherries are initially green, gradually ripening to yellow, and finally fully ripe to red (dark red, large red) or orange-red.

Cherry, branchlets gray-brown, shoots green, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Winter buds ovate, glabrous.

The fruit can be eaten as a fruit, the appearance of bright color, crystal beautiful, red like agate, yellow like curd, the fruit is rich in sugar, protein, vitamins and calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium and other elements.

Cherry is light-loving, temperature-loving, humidity-loving, fertilizer-loving fruit trees, suitable for growth in the average annual temperature of 10-12 ℃, annual precipitation of 600-700mm, the annual sunshine hours of 2600-2800h or more under the climatic conditions. The average daily temperature is higher than 10 ℃ in 150-200d, the extreme minimum temperature in winter is not less than -20 ℃ can grow well, normal fruit.

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Breeding cherries, the breeding of the target then are focused on the fruit, focusing on taste and nutrition, this time to bloom whether the flowers are beautiful is is no longer important.

Testimony, in China's Yellow River Basin, widespread cultivation of the cherry should be native to China's wild species, in the "Flora of China" on the Chinese name of this species is called cherry, in the ancient books, this fruit is also often referred to as Ying Peach, Yu Peach, Plum Peach, or Zhu Cherry, and there is a better name is called the Peach, and perhaps from this there is a "small mouth of cherries" this description of a woman's small mouth.

Additionally, in Beijing and parts of northern China there is a hairy cherry, with red, yellow and white fruits that are sweet, sour and juicy.

And today we see on the market, the larger cherries are mostly from another species, is native to the Black Sea coast of Europe and West Asia's sweet cherry, horticulturists use this species to cultivate the fruit is much larger, and sweet taste, more importantly, the yield is relatively high, and storage resistance, easy to transport, so now the sweet cherry growing area is more and more, the market share is also more and more. The market share is also higher and higher.

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