#542 most planted
Prunus cerasus
Sour cherry · also Tart cherry, Dwarf cherry, Amarelle cherry
1,337
trees mapped
0.01%
of all named trees
20
cities
2.4 in
median trunk (6 cm, 1,229 measured)
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Prunus cerasus, also known as sour cherry, tart cherry, or dwarf cherry, is an Old World species of Prunus. It has two main groups of cultivars: the dark-red Morello cherry and the lighter-red Amarelle cherry. The sour pulp is edible.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 3890.07%—1.6 in
- 2090.28%—9.3 in
- 1230.17%5.8 yr2.0 in
- 1130.04%—3.0 in
- 1120.02%8.4 yr2.8 in
- 680.01%—2.0 in
- 640.14%8.8 yr2.4 in
- 570.02%3.3 yr2.0 in
- 520.01%25 yr7.3 in
- 500.02%—7.6 in
- 320.02%—9.0 in
- 260.07%—15 in
- 140.00%—8.0 in
- 110.00%24 yr7.9 in
- 100.00%—8.5 in
- 20.00%—11 in
- 20.00%——
- 10.00%—1.0 in
- 10.00%—13 in
- 10.00%—1.6 in
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Caucasus mixed forests
Other Prunus in the catalogue
60 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
