Sweet cherryvariety
Chelan
An early-season sweet cherry bred in Washington.
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Origin · Prosser, WA
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- high
- Firmness
- mediumfirm
How to spot it
- Skin
- Mahogany
- Flesh
- red
- Shape
- round, heart
Harvest & storage
- Ripening
- Ripe Chelan fruit are mahogany-coloured.
Origin & family
Where Chelan began
Recorded origin
Prosser, WA
United States
- Institution
- IAREC
Chelan’s family
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This variety
Chelan
Prosser, WA, United States
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Field notes
Original source notes
- weight
- 7.4 g · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- flesh colour
- red · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- firmness
- medium · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- shape
- round, heart · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- sweetness
- high · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- texture
- firm · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- season timing
- early · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- ripeness cue
- Ripe Chelan fruit are mahogany-coloured.extension.oregonstate.edu ↗
descriptor observations
- trait
- appearance
- value
- round, heart shaped, mahogany to mahogany red
- context
- WSU cultivar descriptors; appearance is not unique enough for visual cultivar identification.
- source url
- treefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- trait
- pollination class
- value
- XVI (S3S9)
- context
- WSU cultivar descriptor; S-allele notation retained without reconciling conflicts among sources.
- source url
- treefruit.wsu.edu ↗