Cherry Varieties: Newest From Around the World
Cherries are a very challenging fruit to grow. but when you get it right, it can be a beautiful thing.
Tree Connection seeks out new cherry varieties around the world. We work with all the major nurseries in the west to bring you high-quality trees at competitive prices. Let’s talk varieties on roots. We are happy to arrange field visits to see actual results.
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Cherry Varieties
The information is provided for reference only.
| Photo | Variety | Bloom Time | Harvest Time | Details | Allele | Common Pollinizers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Attika® (Kordia®) | 5 days after Bing | Late ripening (5-7 days after Bing) | Variety is large and dark red to black in color with great flavor and firmness. It is self-fertile and crack resistant. It is commonly planted as a pollen source for Regina. Ships very well. | S3 S6 | |
 | Benton™ PC7146-8 cv. (USPP 15,847) | 5 days after Bing | 2 days ahead of Bing | A mid-season, excellent quality dark red sweet cherry. Similar to Bing in appearance, the fruit is large but ripens a couple of days before Bing, has excellent firmness, and superior flavor. Produces a vigorous tree that is similar in branching angle to Bing. It blooms later than Bing, consistently crops well, has lower susceptibility to rain cracking than Bing, and is self fertile. Susceptible to powdery mildew. | S4' S9 | |
 | Bing | This cherry spawned an entire industry. It is large, dark and firm, though many other cherry varieties now better it in some if, not all of those categories, it is still the most common cherry produced in the United States. It is susceptible to rain cracking. All cherry bloom and harvest timing is based on bloom and harvest timing as compared to Bing. | S3 S4 | |||
 | Blackpearl® | 1 day ahead of Bing | 7-8 days before Bing | This superior eating cherry is the earliest ripening of the Pearl series from Cornell University. They ripen about 7-8 days before Bing, exhibit good crack resistance and are large when managed correctly. The trees bloom prolifically and can overset causing smaller fruit at harvest. Blooms 1.5 days ahead of Bing | S4 S13 | Chelan, Burgundy Pearl (half compatible), Lapins, and Sweetheart |
 | Black Republican | This small, firm and very dark cherry is used as a pollenizer. | S1 S4 | |||
 | Black Tartarian | This very old and soft variety is used almost exclusively as a pollinizer. | S1 S2 | |||
 | Burgundypearl® | 2 days before of Bing | 4 days ahead of Bing | This large dark cherry has great flavor and is quite firm. | S3 S4 | Chelan, Samba, Black Pearl (half compatible), Ebony Pearl (half compatible) |
 | Chelan™ PC7146-23 cv. | 2 days ahead of Bing | 10-12 days before Bing | The most popular early season, export-quality dark red sweet cherry in the Pacific Northwest. Similar to Bing in appearance, the fruit is medium-to-large in size, with a mahogany red skin and medium-to-dark red flesh. It ripens 10 to 12 days before Bing, has good firmness and flavor, and exhibits lower susceptibility to both rain-induced cracking and heat-induced double fruit formation than Bing. Chelan produces a tree that is more moderate in branching angle than Bing. It flowers precociously and fruits heavily, requiring good management to achieve optimal fruit size. Thus, precocious rootstocks are not needed for early cropping and may make management for optimal fruit size more intensive. | S3 S9 | Rainier, Bing, Lapins, Sweetheart, Van, and Index™. Chelan is incompatible with Burlat, Tieton™ and PC 7214-3. |
 | Coral Champagne | 1 day after Bing | 7 days before Bing | A large firm bright red cherry that ripens about 7 days before Bing, this cherry from the University of California is a precocious variety that bears heavily and consistently. It does suffer from rain cracking about equal to Bing. Pollenizes with Chelan. | S1 S3 | Chelan, Rainier, and Bing |
 | Cristalina™ | About 7 days ahead of Bing | Large dark red variety from Summerland Varieties | Bing, Rainier, Skeena | ||
 | Early Robin® | About a week earlier than Rainier cherry | This large sweet yellow cherry can be difficult to produce large crops on. Very susceptible to bacterial canker. | S1 S3 | Bing, Chelan and Rainier | |
 | Ebonypearl® | Blooms with Bing | Harvested with Bing | This very large cherry makes a great replacement for the old standard with great flavor, size, firmness and crack resistance. The vigorous tree is bacterial canker resistant. | S1 S4 | Bing, Black Pearl, Burgundy Pearl |
 | Index® | 3-5 days ahead of Bing | Has a medium to large, firm dark red fruit that has an excellent flavor. While it blooms ahead of Bing, it is still compatible. Index™ is self-fertile with moderate incidence of rain cracking, similar to Bing. The tree was developed at Washington State research facility in Prosser Washington | |||
 | Lapins | 2-4 days ahead of Bing | 10 days after Bing | A self-fertile variety of sweet cherry with large dark red fruit of excellent flavor. Lapins trees are bacterial canker resistant. Tends to pitting. Trees are vigors and upright in growth habit. | S1 S4' | |
 | Montmorency | Bright red tart cherry commonly used for both commercial and home processing. | ||||
 | RadiancePearl® | 2 days after Bing | 7-10 days ahead of Bing | Rainier type cherry has exceptional flavor and quality. The fruit averages 11g with 20% sugar and is resistant to rain cracking. It has a vigorous, hardy and productive tree. | S1 S13 | Ebony Pearl, Rainier |
 | Rainier | Blooms with Bing | 5 days ahead of Bing | Very large, dark red, late season cherry, crunchy and quite sweet. It is firm, ships well and is rain crack resistant. Can tend toward low production and needs a productive rootstock and pollenizers. The distinctive red blush over yellow skin is very sweet and mild in flavor. Susceptible to cracking. | S1 S4 | Sam, Van, Bing, Montmorency |
 | Regina™ | About 5 days after Bing | Late season (12-14 days after Bing) | Very large, dark red, late season cherry, crunchy and quite sweet. It is firm, ships well and is rain crack resistant. Can tend toward low production and needs a productive rootstock and pollenizers | S1 S3 | Sam, Attika Kordia, Stark’s Gold |
 | Samba™ (Sumte) | Early | 7 days ahead of Bing. | Developed as a mid season harvest, but may be picked several days earlier with pinkish skin evident. Harvest is variable at about 7 days before Bing. Moderate rain cracking is possible. Early bloom timing | S1 S3 | |
 | Sandra Rose | 5 days after Bing | Self-fertile Summerland variety. It is large and rounded but is just moderate in its productivity and had moderate rain crack issues. | S3 S12 | ||
 | Santina | 2 days after Bing | 7 days ahead of Bing | This Summerland program variety is medium in size. The tree is self-fertile, productive and somewhat weeping in habit. The flavour is moderately sweet. It is somewhat susceptible to rain cracking. Needs a vigorous root | S1 S4’ | Self fertile |
 | Sentennial™ | 30 days after Bing | This very late variety has a moderately sweet flavor. Susceptible to powdery mildew. It is self fertile | S3 S4’ | ||
 | Skeena™ | Mid-late bloomer | 10-12 days after Bing | A high-quality late-season cherry. It is large and dark red to almost black in color. It is moderately susceptible to rain cracking. It is a self fertile mid-late bloomer | S1 S4’ | |
 | Suite Note™ 'SPC136' | 7 days after Bing | 6-8 days before Bing in the Dalles | A newer very large early-season cherry from the Summerland, BC cherry breeding program. The trees are not self-fertile. At over 12 g, the fruit size of ‘SPC136’ is significantly larger than Bing, and very large for an early-season cherry. In industry row sizes, this corresponds to an 8.5- to 9-row cherry, which is 29.75 to 31.35 mm diameter. Flesh firmness is similar to Santina or Bing. Trees of ‘SPC136’ have moderate vigor and medium to upright branch angles. | S2 S4 | Benton |
 | Sweetheart | 3 weeks after Bing | A large, bright red heart-shaped cherry that and remains firm after picking but is susceptible to rain cracking. This self-fruitful cross of Van and Newstar is productive with good firmness, size and flavor but sufferers from moderate cracking. The tree is spreading and precocious, yielding heavy crops on all rootstocks. Is susceptible to powdery mildew. Self fertile | S3 S4’ | ||
 | Tamara™ cv | Blooms with Skeena | 6 days after Bing | One of the largest cherry varieties available in the US. It is very flavorful, crunchy and crack resistant. | S1 S9 | Attika, Sweetheart |
 | Tieton™ | A day after Bing | 7-9 days ahead of Bing | Sweet, mild flavored very large fruit. It is mahogany red with thick stems. | S3 S9 | |
 | Van | 3 days ahead of Bing | 3 days ahead of Bing | Used primarily as a pollenizer, this medium-size cherry that resembles Bing, the tree bears black, sweet fruits. The tree has good vigor, is hardy, and is typically very productive and could overset fruit. Van will not cross-pollinate with Regina™. | S1 S3 |
