Bing
A dark sweet cherry central to North American cherry production.
Origin · Lewelling nursery, Milwaukie, Oregon, United States
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- high
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
These named cherries are a good starting point for a side-by-side tasting of sweetness and tartness.
extension guidance · Pacific Northwest, United States; Oregon, Washington and Idaho extension publication.
Read the evidence
A 2007 Pacific Northwest extension guide reports high flavor ratings for Bing, Benton and Sweetheart in consumer studies that also rated them highly for both sweetness and tartness. The guide interprets that combination as a useful flavor balance. It cites an unpublished 2005 study without panel size, sample conditions or a score table.
- Fruit tested
- Fresh-market sweet cherries; exact crop maturity and storage history of any underlying tasting samples are not supplied.
- Varieties compared
- Bing, Benton, Sweetheart
- Use studied
- Understanding cultivar-specific eating and handling qualities.
- Published
- 2007
How to spot it
- Skin
- Light mahogany to mahogany
- Flesh
- red
- Shape
- heart
- Size
- medium
Harvest & storage
- Ripening
- Ripe Bing fruit range from light mahogany to mahogany.
Origin & family
Where Bing began
Recorded origin
Lewelling nursery, Milwaukie, Oregon
United States
- Institution
- S. Lewelling, OR
Bing’s family
16 varieties · 16 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
Bing
Lewelling nursery, Milwaukie, Oregon, United States
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Field notes
Original source notes
- shape
- heart · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- size
- medium · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- flesh colour
- red · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- sweetness
- high · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- texture
- juicy, firm, crisp · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- season timing
- early to mid · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- ripeness cue
- Ripe Bing fruit range from light mahogany to mahogany.extension.oregonstate.edu ↗
descriptor observations
- trait
- appearance
- value
- heart shaped, moderate sized, dark red/mahogany, flesh dark red
- context
- WSU cultivar descriptors; appearance is not unique enough for visual cultivar identification.
- source url
- treefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- trait
- pollination class
- value
- III (S3S4)
- context
- WSU cultivar descriptor; S-allele notation retained without reconciling conflicts among sources.
- source url
- treefruit.wsu.edu ↗
Photos
Peggy Greb, USDA ARSPublic Domain Mark 1.0 Bing Cherries.