Cherry Tree Identification Help

[BusyMcGee]

I have a tree in the yard of my new house that appears to be some sort of cherry. Based on my research it appears to be a Montmorency. If it is I would like to pick some of the fruit for baking. I always hesitant about consuming unknown edibles so I was hoping that someone could offer an opinion. In addition to the photos, I'd like to add that the flesh of the fruit is yellow and it has a single pit in it. The pictures are a few days old, and in the mean time, the skin of the fruit has turned a uniform bright red color (the flesh is still yellow).

Many thanks for any help you can offer.

Regards,
Sean

 

[snake_2586]

I will agree, it is definatly a cherry tree, with out a size comparison I am unable to tell you if it is a wild or ornamental cherry, I will gess it is not a wild cherry being in you yard. Ornamental trees are grown for there flowers and the fruits are normaly about the size of your finge nail.

All cherrys are edible as far as I am aware it is just the ones I have mentioned are not worth it as the stone is nearly as big as the fruit, cherrys that are grown for there fruit are much bigger 3/4"-1" in diameter if he tree has plenty of water to produce the fruit, out of all the varietys of cherry I know of no way to tell them apart, other than trying them, an eating cherry will be nice, a cooking one not so much.

I have to varietys a morello and a sasha, if you put one fruit next to the other you would not tell the difference until you try them, then you would find the morello was almost to sharp to eat.

once you have established if it is a cooker or eater you may be able to narrow it down more with harvesting times, but I cannot be much help there.

 

[BC WetCoast]

Cherry leaves and stems are going to look similar from 1 variety to another. There are 25 varieties used in orchard production in BC alone, which doesn't count heritage varieties that individuals grow. You're going to have to do some google searches with the fruit characteristics to get a better answer.