Genre - Fruit : Prunus avium - Cerise
Informations de la variété
- Prunus avium L.
- Cerisier
- Excellent modern English dark red cherry variety.
- Suitable for the marginal climatic areas of the U.K. as it holds its fruit well during poor summers.
- Summer Sun was developed in the 1960s at the John Innes research institute, Norfolk UK, but was not originally considered to have any commercial value, and was not even registered for royalty purposes. In a trial plot at the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale it was thought to be only a light cropper - until a keen-eyed researcher realised this was because the tree was on the end of a row, and not properly covered by the anti-bird net which protected the other trees. It was then taken on by the Frank P. Matthews nursery in the west Midlands, who found it to be one of the best cropping mid-season cherries then available. It also proved to be precocious (cropping from an early age) and the blossom was found to be quite resistant to spring frost damage. It soon established itself as one of the best-adapted dessert cherries for the UK climate.
The John Innes insititute was also involved in the very early work on self-fertile cherries in the 1940s - but Summer Sun was not part of that project. It is sometimes reported as being self-fertile, but this is most likely because it can set a crop even in a difficult spring when other varieties might fail. - RHS AGM 1993
- https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/137913/i-Prunus-avium-i-Summer-Sun-(D)/Details
https://www.orangepippintrees.co.uk/cherry-trees/summer-sun
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Variété modifié le 29 août 2021