Beautiful cherry blossoms on the main street of UC Berkeley campus. HTBphotos for website backgrounds and stock photos by John and Katharina Notarianni. Springtime blossoms. Fruit trees. A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe stone fruit.
Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet Prunus avium and the sour Prunus cerasus. The name `cherry` also refers to the cherry tree and its wood, and is sometimes applied to almonds and visually similar flowering trees in the genus Prunus, as in `ornamental cherry` or `cherry blossom`. Wild cherry may refer to any of the cherry species growing outside cultivation, although Prunus avium is often referred to specifically by the name `wild cherry` in the British Isles.
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