Sweet cherry
Prunus avium (L.) L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.9 m
- wide
- 6.9 m
Rosaceae
Also called Wild Cherry, Bird cherry, Gean, wild cherry
Formerly Cerasus anglica, Cerasus avicularis, Cerasus avium, Cerasus bigarella, and 19 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to Afghanistan, N. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 4.6 m to 9.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 9.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Tajik
- гелос
- Chinese
- 欧洲甜樱桃, 甜櫻桃
- Simplified Chinese
- 欧洲樱桃, 欧洲甜樱桃
- Slovenian
- češnja
- Czech
- třešeň ptačí
- German
- Süsskirsche, Vogel-Kirsche
- French
- cerisier des oiseaux
- Dutch
- zoete kers, Zoete kers
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.5
- 3D model: Prunus avium (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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