Sour cherry

As you can expect from the name, sour cherries have fruits that are quite acidic. Sour cherries come in two varieties: the morello cherry (dark red color) and the amarelle cherry (lighter red color).

This page provides some basic information on sour cherry together with some sour cherry photos, some proverbs and quotes about cherries, and unfortunately no sour cherry recipe.

Basic information on sour cherry

Scientific name:	Prunus cerasus
English:	Sour cherry
Dutch:	Zure kers Morel
Spanish:	Guindo Cerezo ácido Cerezo de Morello
French:	Griottier Cerisier aigre
German:	Sauerkirsche Sauer-Kirsche Weichselkirsche
Italian:	Amareno Amarasco Visciolo
Other:	Kriek

Family:	Rosaceae
Order:	Rosales

Origin:	Sour cherries are native to part of Europe and south-west Asia.
Distribution:	Highest production of sour cherries is in Turkey, Poland, Russia, USA, Iran and Serbia

Evergreen or deciduous:	Deciduous
Flowers:	White flowers, often 2 or 4 together.
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Fruits:	Round red fruits with a diamter of 15 to 20 mm.
Climate and weather:	Sour cherries grow in temperate climates in Europe and south-west Asia.
Pollination:	Sour cherries are self-pollinating. When many bees are present this will improve fruiting.
Height:	Sour cherry trees can be 4 to 10 meter high, usually about 6 meter.
Blooming period	Sour cherry blooms in spring and produces fruits in summer.
Type of soil:	Sour cherries prefer a rich, well-drained but moist soil. They don't like waterlogging.
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Propagation:	Sour cherry is usually propagated by budding onto strong rootstocks.
Insect pests:	Sour cherries have not many insect problems, but are often damaged by birds.
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Harvesting:	Sour cherries have to be hand-picked when they are ripe.
Uses:	Unlike sweet cherries, sour cherries are too sour to be eaten fresh (although some people like them). The sour cherriy is often used in cooking, for example in soups and pork dishes, cakes, tarts, and pies. Sour cherries make an excellent jam and can be made into sauces to use on ice cream. Sour cherries are also often used in liqueurs and other drinks.

Sour cherry photos

Proverbs about cherries

A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year.
A dead cherry tree will not blossom.
A woman and a cherry are painted for their own harm.
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Don't expect a cherry tree from an acorn.
He who eats cherries with gentlemen risks getting the pips in his nose.
He who likes cherries soon learns to climb.
In the cherry blossom's shade, there's no such thing as a stranger.
Life is just a bowl of cherries.
Money buys cherries.
Neither give cherries to pigs nor advice to fools.
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
The cherry blossom among flowers, the warrior among men.
The olive grove of your grandfather, the cherry trees of your father, and your grape vines.
Without wine, even beautiful cherry blossoms have small attraction.
Ye have a ready mouth for a ripe cherry.
You need plant only one cherry and one plum tree.

Quotes about cherries

If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most definitive rock n roll band ever. (Andy Taylor)
About the woodlands I will go, to see the cherry hung with snow. (A.E. Housman)
If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits? (Erma Bombeck)
The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry. (Halle Berry)
I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees. (Pablo Neruda)

Sour cherry recipes

Unfortunately I don't have a sour cherry recipe. Who can help?