Commercial Varieties of Cherry

Name of Variety	Salient Features	Recommended Areas
Black Heart	Vigorous trees, mid-season flowering. Fruits medium-sized, heart-shaped with compressed apex. Skin deep shiny blackish purple. Early to mid-season maturity.	Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh
Guigne Noir Gross	Medium to large vigour trees, mid-season flowering. Fruits medium-sized, roundish obtuse heart-shaped. Dark red skin. Early maturity.	Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh
Bigarreau Napoleon (Double)	Medium to vigorous trees, early flowering. Fruits longish, medium to large, heart-shaped. Creamy red-yellow skin. Early to mid-season maturity.	Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh
Bigarreau Noir Grossa (Mishri)	Medium to large vigour trees. Fruits obtuse heart-shaped. Skin dark red turning blackish purple. Mid to late maturity.	Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh
Guigne Noir Hative (Makhmali)	Medium to vigorous trees, late flowering. Very large fruits, ovoid obtuse heart-shaped. Skin blackish brown to black. Small stone. Mid to late maturity.	Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh
Lambert	Medium vigour trees, mid flowering. Fruits large, round, deep ruby red to blackish. Susceptible to rain cracking. Mid to late maturity.	Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh
Bing	Upright to spreading vigorous trees, mid flowering. Very large fruits, round to slightly heart-shaped. Skin maroon to deep red.	Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh
Stella	Medium spreading, precocious trees. Mid to late flowering. Very large heart-shaped fruits. Dark red skin turning black at maturity. Small stone.	Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh
CITH Cherry-01	Semi-spreading, precocious, regular and prolific bearer. Fruits large, ovoid, dark red with long pedicels. Good sugar-acid balance, high TSS.	Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh
CITH Cherry-02	Upright, precocious, prolific bearer. Fruits large, attractive red, higher TSS than Mishri. Matures 10 days earlier than Mishri.	Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh