Cherry Tree!
I remember back in the days going to my grandparents' jumping on the tree, eating cherries straight off that tree, unwashed but far better than any cherries you can buy in shops anywhere, and no harm has happened to any one of us.
We had many kinds of cherries early ones were white/pink/yellow and the later ones were red and even black, mmm, the taste of just ripened cherries is unforgettable.
These days I envy anyone that has their own cherry trees.
Luckily we found couple of those trees with my brother growing wildly.
We're waiting patiently :-]
Photo by FilmMasochist.
A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).
The cherry fruits of commerce usually are obtained from cultivars of a limited number of species such as the sweet cherry (Prunus avium) and the sour cherry (Prunus cerasus). The name 'cherry' also refers to the cherry tree, 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.
Many cherries are members of the subgenus Cerasus, which is distinguished by having the flowers in small corymbs of several together (not singly, nor in racemes), and by having smooth fruit with only a weak groove along one side, or no groove. The subgenus is native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with two species in America, three in Europe, and the remainder in Asia. Other cherry fruits are members of subgenus Padus.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry
