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ACHARYA N.G. RANGAAGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITYS V AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ,TIRUPATI

CHERRYB.Sc.(Ag), 1st Semester-2012-2013



S.ESWARA REDDY



• Main features: Small fast-growing tree with drooping branches that givean umbrella-shaped crown. Grows up to 7-12m.

Leaves: Simple, covered with sticky hairs.

Flowers: Small, white. Last only one day, petals falling in the afternoon.

• Fruits: Small, round, juicy, green turning red when ripe. Very sweet,musky, somewhat fig-like flavour, filled with tiny, yellowish seeds, toofine to be noticed when the fruit is eaten.

Status in Singapore: Introduced, common in wastelands.

World distribution: Native to southern Mexico, Central America, tropicalSouth America, the Greater Antilles, St. Vincent and Trinidad. Widelyintroduced to almost all tropical regions.

Classification: Family Elaeocarpaceae.



The Cherry Tree is named for its sweet sticky fruits, juicy and full of tiny seeds. They

are a favourite with birds and bats, which disperse the seeds, and children too! The

leaves are covered with tiny sticky hairs.

Although it provides good shade, it is not a popular wayside tree because the birds and

bats that visit the tree also leave their droppings under the tree.

The tree flourishes in poor soil, tolerating both acid and alkaline conditions and quitedrought resistant. However, it doesn't tolerate salty conditions and so is not a true

mangrove associate.

Uses as food: The fruits are eaten in Mexico and sold in markets there. Fruits are

also made into jams and used in tarts. The leaf is made into a tea. In Brazil, they are

planted on river banks so their fallen fruit attracts fish which are then caught.



Other uses: The reddish-brown timber is compact, fine-

grained, moderately strong, light in weight, durable, and easily

worked. It is used to make small boxes, casks, and general

carpentry. The dried timber is valued as firewood for cooking as

it lights quickly and produces intense heat with little smoke. InBrazil, it is being considered as pulp for paper making. The bark

is stripped to produce strong soft cord made into ropes. Because

of its ability to grow quickly on poor soils and rapid dispersal by

birds and bats, the Cherry Tree is being considered as a

candidate for reforestation projects.



Traditional medicinal uses: The flowers are used as an antiseptic and to treat spasms. It

is also taken to relieve headaches and colds.

Role in the habitat: As a pioneer species on poor soils, it helps provide shade for other

plants to establish themselves. Its fruits provide food for birds and bats, and it provides

shelter for small creatures



CHERRY’S LEAF



Acid cherries fruit

predominantly on the

previous year’s

growth, so pruning

needs to be much heavier than for sweet

cherries in order to encourage lots of new

growth. Prune once fruit has been picked.

First, remove any dead, damaged or

diseased branches. Then remove anythat

are very weak, badly placed, crossingthrough the centre of the bush or rubbing

on other branches.

Remove about a quarter of the

remaining older wood, cutting back to a

main branch or younger side-shoot.Leave young shoots that are less than

30cm long unpruned. Shorten longer

ones, plus any vigorous new extension

growth on main branches, by about a

third to encourage branching.

Pruning.



Climate Change and Cherry Tree

Blossom Festivals in JapanRichard Primack and Hiroyoshi Higuchi.

Climate change is already having an influence on plants throughout the world,

with warming trends creating conditions that cause many plant species to extend

to cooler zones on mountain slopes or farther north of their original ranges.

Plants are leafing out earlier in the spring and holding leaves longer in the

autumn, creating an extended growing season.

Of all of the characteristics of plants that relate to global warming, the timing of

flowering is the one for which there are the greatest number of observations.

These data demonstrate that plants are now flowering earlier than they did a

few decades ago, and that changes are mainly a product of temperature increase,

rather than a result of other aspects of the weather.

Although observations of flowering time tell a convincing story of the impacts



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