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