Sweet Cherry Seeds (Prunus avium) - Pack of 10 seeds

Sweet Cherry Seeds (Prunus avium) - Pack of 10 seeds

Pack of 10 seeds collected this season.

It is a deciduous tree that grows to 15–32 m in height, with a trunk up to 1.5 m in diameter. Young trees show strong apical dominance with a straight trunk and a symmetrical conical crown, becoming rounded to irregular in older trees.

The bark is smooth purplish-brown with prominent horizontal greyish-brown lenticels on young trees, which become thick dark blackish-brown and fissured on old trees.

The leaves are alternate, simple ovoid-sharp, 7–14 cm (2.8–5.5 in) long and 4–7 cm wide, glabrous, dull or sub-glossy green above, variably finely hairy below, with a serrated margin and an acuminate tip, with a 2–3.5 cm long green or reddish petiole with two to five small red glands. The tip of each serrated edge of the leaves also has small red glands. In fall, the leaves turn orange, pink, or red before falling.

The fruit is a drupe 1–2 cm in diameter (larger in some cultivated selections), bright red to dark purple when ripe in midsummer, edible, variably sweet to somewhat astringent, and bitter to eat fresh.

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