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Cherry Varieties
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Cherry Varieties recommended by Advice&Consulting.
Choosing the right cherry variety is a fundamental step for the growth of a prosperous and productive orchard. Climate, soil, specific needs and cultivation goals are just some of the factors to consider for an optimal selection.
Advice&Consulting is your ideal partner to navigate the complexity of this choice and identify the cherry varieties that best suit your needs. Our team of experts will support you at every stage of the process, offering you a complete and personalized service.
Click on each cherry variety to discover information and characteristics.
A self-fertile variety that ripens late (slightly before or simultaneously with Sweet Heart®), notable for its productivity and the good characteristics of its fruits. It is quite sensitive to cracking. Due to the tree’s moderate vigor and high fertility, it requires vigorous rootstocks.
A late-maturing and flowering variety with good productivity. The tree has medium-high vigor with medium-strong growth and good flowering. The fruit is large, rounded in shape with dark red coloring.
A mid-early ripening cultivar with high vigor, expansive habit, high productivity, and early fruit set. It is self-sterile, and Folfer* is recommended as a pollinator. The fruit is large (28-30 mm in caliber), with red skin and a short stalk. The flesh is firm, crunchy, and has a good balanced flavor. The fruit has medium sensitivity to splitting.
A late-maturing plant with medium-high vigor, intermediate habit, late fruit set, average productivity, inconsistent yield, and late flowering. The fruit appears large, heart-shaped with a pointed end, skin is bright red, uniform, shiny, and the flesh is light pink, firm, juicy, and flavorful. Additionally, it has a long stalk and high sensitivity to cracking.
An early-maturing cherry cultivar. It has a medium to high vigor tree and an expansive habit that fruits quickly, with excellent branching and very high productivity. The fruits, large in size (26-30 mm), have a bright red skin, round shape, and are moderately resistant to splitting. The red, firm, crunchy, juicy, and sweet flesh facilitates harvest management due to good retention on the branch.
Varieties maturing later with average yield and early production start. The plant has medium-high vigor with a standard-upright growth habit. It is self-sterile, requiring late-flowering pollinators (Regina recommended). The fruit is large (28-30 mm), heart-shaped, with dark red skin. The flesh is very firm, crunchy, and sweet.
This mid-early ripening cultivar stands out for its expansive habit, which eases management, and for its quick onset of high productivity. It matches well with medium and high vigor rootstocks. With a mid-season flowering, this variety is self-sterile and benefits from good pollinators such as Van, Lapins, and Sweetheart. It produces heart-shaped, bright and vivid red, very large, and visually attractive fruits with excellent consistency and a slightly tart taste. It’s particularly prone to cracking from rain and monilia, making it ideal for cultivation under covers.
This mid-early ripening cultivar features a high-vigor tree with a semi-upright form and high, consistent productivity. It has a good branching capacity, with somewhat slow fruit set on vigorous rootstocks and intermediate on medium-vigor rootstocks. Production is good on weak rootstocks. The flowering period is mid-late, and the plant is self-fertile. The fruit is large, heart-shaped, with a shiny dark red base color. The flesh has good taste qualities and medium consistency. This variety has a moderate susceptibility to cracking.
A mid-late ripening cultivar with high to medium-high vigor, well-branched expansive habit, self-sterile, and medium-high productivity (though sometimes inconsistent). The fruit is medium to large with a heart shape, deep intense red base color, and speckled overcolor. The flesh has good taste qualities, red color, and medium to high consistency and juiciness. This variety has a moderate susceptibility to cracking, average handling resistance, and low sensitivity to fruit monilia.
A mid-early maturing cultivar with a highly vigorous plant, intermediate growth habit, well-branched, and standard fruiting habit. It is self-compatible. The yield is good and consistent. Thanks to the good fruit maturity retention on the plant, it offers a harvesting window of about 10 days. The fruit is large, heart-shaped, symmetrical, with a bright purple-red skin color. The flesh is firm, pinkish, meaty, juicy, and has a good sweet taste with a high level of acidity. They have a medium-low susceptibility to cracking.
Early variety, highly productive. It has a medium-high vigor and a semi-open habit. Fruit set is average and fruit retention on the tree is excellent. The fruit is large in size (28-30 mm), round in shape, with an intense red color, deepening to dark red. The flesh is red, firm with a good sweet taste (18° Brix). Good resistance to cracking and excellent shelf-life (up to 30 days after harvest).
This late-maturing variety features a moderately vigorous, semi-erect tree that is self-sterile and has average productivity. Its fruits are large, heart-shaped, and deeply red with speckles. The flesh is tasty and firm, displaying low susceptibility to cracking and good resistance to Monilia, performing well on dwarfing rootstocks.
An early-maturing variety with high yield. The tree is moderately vigorous, with rapid fruit set and a semi-open growth habit. The fruit has a dark red color and round shape, with a large size (30-32 mm). It has a good taste with a very sweet flavor and medium susceptibility to cracking.
A late-ripening plant (Regina period) developed by Zaiger Genetics (USA) and produced under license by IPS (France). The tree is vigorous with a semi-expanded habit, predominantly fruiting on spurs. The fruit is spherical with a medium and thick stalk. It is very large (average caliber over 33-34 mm) with an average weight of 14-15 g. The fruit’s consistency is very high. The stalk is very thick, of medium length, resistant to handling, and has a long shelf-life. The fruit is spherical. The organoleptic characteristics are excellent (average Brix degree of 19-20° with very low acidity). Sensitivity to cracking is medium-high and to Monilia is medium. Royal Helen* is self-fertile, hence highly productive on both dwarfing and traditional rootstocks.
A late-ripening variety with quick production. The plant exhibits high vigor and rapid fruit set. It is self-incompatible, with Royal Helen recommended as a pollinator. The fruit is large, round, and crimson red in color. The flesh is highly firm, sweet, aromatic, and juicy with superior taste qualities. It has a moderate sensitivity to cracking.
A newly introduced cherry variety with a harvest period ranging from early to very early, featuring medium to large size fruit. It boasts a deep color and excellent flavor.
A new cherry variety from the Royal series, it enters the very early harvesting period, around the same time as Burlat. Highly productive with a beautiful, bright red color.
A mid-season ripening cultivar with medium to low vigor, an upright-expanded habit, self-fertile, and medium-high productivity. The fruit is medium to large with a flattened shape, dark red base color, and a uniform overcolor. The flesh has good taste qualities, dark red color, medium-high consistency, and medium juiciness. This variety is quite susceptible to cracking, with medium-good handling resistance and medium-low sensitivity to fruit Monilia.
A cultivar developed in France and distributed under the license of International Plant Selection. The tree has medium-high vigor, is easy to grow, highly productive, self-fertile, and quickly begins producing fruit. The fruit is large (although to achieve good-sized fruits, substantial pruning is necessary), very firm, and highly resistant to cracking. The flesh is crunchy and has good organoleptic characteristics. This cultivar is self-fertile and ripens in Italy in the early days of June.
Early-maturing cultivar with a robust, expansive tree that is well-branched with a standard fruiting habit. It yields high productivity. Excellent fruit set allows for a 10-day harvesting window. The fruit is medium to large, heart-shaped to flat, symmetrical, and visually appealing. The skin is medium-thin, shiny dark red covering the entire surface, turning to a glossy blackish-red as it fully ripens. The flesh is firm, meaty, juicy, highly aromatic, with good organoleptic qualities, very sweet, and a well-balanced level of acidity.
A cherry variety with an early harvesting period, ripening just a few days after Burlat. The fruit is large (30-32mm), firm, crunchy, sweet, and aromatic. This self-incompatible variety requires suitable pollinators.
This is an extremely early ripening cultivar with a high-vigor plant, an intermediate or semi-upright posture, and average productivity. The fruit set is rather slow, with the best productive performance on weak rootstocks. It blooms mid to late and is self-fertile. The fruit is large, heart-shaped, with a shiny dark red base color. The flesh has good taste qualities (sweet), but medium to poor consistency. This variety is moderately sensitive to splitting from rain.
This mid-season cultivar features a vigorous, well-branched tree known for its high productivity and self-incompatibility. Thanks to its strong fruit-setting, it offers an extended harvesting window of over 10 days. The large, heart-shaped fruits with bright red skin encase a juicy, sweet pulp with a good balance of acidity. It is sensitive to splitting in rainy conditions but excels on dwarfing rootstocks.
This mid-early ripening cultivar boasts a robust tree with a semi-expanded, well-branched structure and standard fruiting habit. The excellent retention of fruit maturity on the tree allows for a harvest window of over 15 days. The fruit is very large, heart-shaped, symmetrical, and attractive. It has a medium-thick skin, with a shiny dark red color that covers the entire surface, becoming glossy dark red-black as it matures. The flesh is of excellent consistency, pinkish color, meaty, juicy, aromatic, with good organoleptic qualities, very sweet, and with a good level of acidity.
This cherry variety produces medium to large fruits with deep red coloring. The tree, known for its vigorous growth and expansive form, yields fruits with a firm, aromatic flesh and exceptional flavor.
A late-ripening cultivar with a high-vigor, expansively branched tree and standard fruiting habit. It’s highly productive and self-compatible, with excellent fruit retention on the tree. The fruit is very large, heart-shaped, symmetrical, and visually appealing, with a medium-thin, bright red skin that deepens to a brilliant vermilion upon full ripeness. The flesh is firm, red, juicy, and aromatic, offering good organoleptic qualities, a sweet yet well-balanced flavor, and a good level of acidity.
A late and uniformly ripening variety, with mid-season flowering (usually 1-2 days after Burlat). The tree is highly vigorous with an intermediate, well-branched posture. The large fruit (mainly 30-32 mm in caliber, average weight 12-14 g) is heart-shaped, symmetric, with medium-thin, bright red skin covering the entire surface. The red flesh is firm, meaty, juicy, highly aromatic, of excellent quality, very sweet, with a high level of acidity.
A mid-season ripening cultivar with a high-vigor, semi-expanded, well-branched tree and standard fruiting habit. It boasts good fruit retention on the tree. The fruit is very large, heart-shaped, symmetrical, and attractive, with medium-thin, bright dark red skin that becomes bright purple-red when fully ripe. The flesh is of excellent consistency, pinkish, meaty, juicy, aromatic, with excellent organoleptic qualities, a balanced and very sweet taste, and a good level of acidity.