Cherry tree »These varieties are the most common

The sweet cherry (prunus avium) and the sour cherry (prunus cerasus) both belong to the genus Prunus in the rose family. The types of sweet cherry are cartilage cherry and heart cherry. The sour cherries are available as shrub and tree softeners. The sweet cherries have smooth, shiny skin and firm, often light-colored flesh. The fruits of the sour cherries are soft and juicy with dark red flesh.

The cherry trees only produce abundant fruit if numerous flowers are fertilized if possible. the self-sterile Varieties only bear fruit if they are from someone else variety of the same kind to be fertilized. Even with the self-pollinating varieties, a suitable pollinating variety in the neighborhood has a positive effect on the Yield the end.

Sweet cherry varieties

One of the oldest varieties of cartilaginous cherry is the great black cartilaginous cherry, which originated in France and is widespread today. It owes its popularity to the sweetness of its fruits and their regularly high

Income. However, it is one strongly growing cherry treewho needs a suitable pollinator variety. It is a medium late to late variety.

The very early variety, and therefore largely spared from cherry fly infestation, is Kassin's Early Heart Cherry - a healthy, robust cherry variety from Werder. It also needs a fertilization partner, grows medium to strong and delivers consistently good yields. Other well-known sweet cherry varieties are:

• Büttner's Red Cartilage Cherry (a large-fruited variety with bright yellow skin that dates back to 1795),
• Burlat (early ripening variety with very high yields, therefore often used in commercial cultivation),
• Hedelfinger giant cherry (adaptable variety for warm and cold locations),
• Lapins (compact growing, self-fertile variety for small gardens).

Sour cherry varieties

Probably the best known, most cultivated, very old sour cherry variety is the morello cherries, not least because it has high yields with quite low care supplies. Their fruit is used to make jams and toppings. It has the characteristic sour taste and is very juicy.

The morello cherries, which are also not particularly warm Locations flourishes is a slow-growing tree respectively. Shrub for small home gardens. Like most sour cherries, it is self-pollinating and is suitable as a pollinator for other cherries that bloom at the same time. The Köröser Weichsel variety - a strong-growing tree - is also known for its low demands on location. Other types of sour cherries are:

• Ludwigs Früh (adaptable variety, sweet and sour)
• Fanal (has large fruits, also grows on light and heavy soils)
• Morellenfeuer (mildly sour, aromatic, late variety)
• Werdersche glass cherry (light, slightly sour pulp, early variety, undemanding)

Tips & Tricks

If you don't have space for several cherry trees, you can also try a “family tree”. These are offered in online stores and contain three different types of cherry on a tree.