Prunus cerasus - Sour Cherry

Sour Cherry is a tree up to 10 m tall, crown almost round. Bark is dark brown, with lateral lined lenticels, peeling. Branches are spreading to drooping; young branchlets green, becoming reddish brown, hairless. Leaf-stalks are 1-2 cm, with or without 1 or 2 nectaries; leaf blade elliptic-obovate to ovate, 5-7 x 3-5 cm, base wedge-shaped and often with 2-4 nectaries, margin finely bi-minutely toothed and teeth with a very short cartilaginous apical cusp, tip tapering to a short point. Flowers are borne in 2-4-flowered umbels, often with erect leaflike bracts. Flowers are 2-2.5 cm in diameter, opening at same time as leaves. Petals are white, 1-1.3 cm. Flower-stalks are 1.5-3.5 cm. Sepal-cup is bell-shaped to obconical, sepals triangular, reflexed, margin glandular sawtoothed. Cherry is pale red, spherical to flattened at tip, 1.2-1.5 cm in diameter; mesocarp yellowish and sour. Sour Cherry is native to Caucasus, widely cultivated in colder regions worldwide. Flowering: April-May.