| Lapins cherry | |
|---|---|
 flowers of a Lapins cherry tree | |
| Genus | Prunus |
| Species | Prunus avium |
| Hybrid parentage | Van × Stella |
| Cultivar | Lapins |
| Breeder | K. O. Lapins |
| Origin | Summerland, British Columbia, Canada |
Lapins (also marketed as Cherokee) [1] is a cultivar of cherry. It is a hybrid of the Van and Stella cultivars. [2] It has been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [3]
The Lapins cultivar was developed in Summerland, British Columbia at the Summerland Research Station. [4] It was one of the varieties developed by the agronomist Karlis O. Lapins, a native of Latvia who did pioneering work in the development of self-fertile cherry cultivars. Though the cultivar was not released until 1983, years after his retirement, it was named in his honor. [2]
The Lapins cherry tree grows to 2.5 to 4 meters tall, with a 2.5 to 4 meters spread. [1] It has dense, green foliage and a branch structure conducive to heavy yields. [5] Like its parent variety Stella, the Lapins cherry is self-fertile and an excellent pollinator for other cherry varieties. [5]
The fruit of the Lapins cultivar is regarded as very high quality. It turns deep red well before it is ready to pick, [6] and unlike some varieties it is sweet while still red. [5] Lapins is a late-season cherry, ripening about 2 weeks later than the Bing cherry. [4] They are noted for having good split resistance. [7]
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe.
Prunus cerasus is a species of Prunus in the subgenus Cerasus (cherries), native to much of Europe and southwest Asia. It is closely related to the sweet cherry, but has a fruit that is more acidic. Its sour pulp is edible.
Prunus laurocerasus, also known as cherry laurel, common laurel and sometimes English laurel in North America, is an evergreen species of cherry (Prunus), native to regions bordering the Black Sea in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe, from Albania and Bulgaria east through Turkey to the Caucasus Mountains and northern Iran.
The damson or damson plum, also archaically called the "damascene", is an edible drupaceous fruit, a subspecies of the plum tree. Varieties of insititia are found across Europe, but the name damson is derived from and most commonly applied to forms that are native to Great Britain. Damsons are relatively small ovoid plum-like fruit with a distinctive, somewhat astringent taste, and are widely used for culinary purposes, particularly in fruit preserves and jams.
Prunus cerasifera is a species of plum known by the common names cherry plum and myrobalan plum. It is native to Southeast Europe and Western Asia, and is naturalised in the British Isles and scattered locations in North America. Also naturalized in parts of SE Australia where it is considered to be a mildly invasive weed of bushland near urban centers.
Prunus serrulata or Japanese cherry is a species of cherry tree that grows naturally in Japan, China, Korea and Russia, and it also refers to a cultivar produced from Prunus speciosa, a cherry tree endemic in Japan. Historically, the Japanese have developed many cultivars by selective breeding of cherry trees, which are produced by the complicated crossing of several wild species, and they are used for ornamental purposes all over the world. Of these, the cultivars produced by complex interspecific hybrids based on the Oshima cherry are also known as the Cerasus Sato-zakura Group.
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Prunus subhirtella or Edo higan, is the scientific name for one of the wild species of cherry trees native to Japan, and is also the name given to the cultivars derived from this species. The scientific name for the hybrid between this species and Prunus incisa is Prunus × subhirtella. Historically, the Japanese have produced many cultivars from this wild species, and they are also called weeping cherry, autumn cherry, or winter- flowering cherry, because of the characteristics of each cultivar.
Prunus avium, commonly called wild cherry, sweet cherry, gean, or bird cherry is a species of cherry, a flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. It is native to Europe, Anatolia, Maghreb, and Western Asia, from the British Isles south to Morocco and Tunisia, north to the Trondheimsfjord region in Norway and east to the Caucasus and northern Iran, with a small isolated population in the western Himalaya. The species is widely cultivated in other regions and has become naturalized in North America and Australia.
Prunus serrula, called birch bark cherry, birchbark cherry, paperbark cherry, or Tibetan cherry, is a species of cherry native to China, and is used as an ornamental in many parts of the world for its striking coppery-red bark.
Stella is a cultivar of cherry developed in British Columbia, Canada. It is notable as the first self-fertile sweet cherry to be named. It has been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
The Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre is an agricultural research centre in British Columbia, Canada. The centre has been historically important in the development of tree fruits. It is administered by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and includes sites at Summerland and Agassiz.
Van is a cultivar of cherry originating from Canada.
The Sweetheart cherry is a cultivar of cherry. It is a hybrid of the Van and Newstar cultivars first developed in Canada.
Skeena is a cultivar of cherry originating in Canada.
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Regina is a cultivar of sweet cherry developed in Germany.
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