name: Sweet Cherry

flavor_db_name_variants: sweet cherry

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Sweet cherry

id: 145

name_scientific: Prunus avium

description: Prunus avium, commonly called wild cherry, sweet cherry, bird cherry, or gean, is a species of cherry native to Europe, western Turkey, northwestern Africa, and western Asia, from the British Isles south to Morocco and Tunisia, north to the Trondheimsfjord region in Norway and east to the Caucasus and northern Iran, with a small disjunct population in the western Himalaya. This species, in the rose family (Rosaceae), has a diploid set of sixteen chromosomes (2n=16). All parts of the plant except for the ripe fruit are slightly toxic, containing cyanogenic glycosides.

itis_id: 24770

wikipedia_id: Prunus avium

picture_file_name: 145.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 100554

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:43:12.000Z

legacy_id: 154

food_group: Fruits

food_subgroup: Drupes

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:22.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:17.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 42229

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00145