Sweet cherry: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	European wild cherry • Prunus avium

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Rows of cherry trees covered in white blossoms stand in a grassy orchard under a clear blue sky in Germany.

Botanical illustration by Anna Maria Sibylla Merian showing a sweet cherry branch with red fruit, a caterpillar, a chrysalis, a butterfly, and a silken cocoon on leaves.

Cherry tree (Prunus avium), woodcut by David Kandel from De stirpium historia (1552), Latin translation of New Kreuterbuch by Hieronymus Bock

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