Sweet cherryvariety
Lapins
Also known as Cherokee
Cherokee
A sweet cherry bred in Canada.
Origin · Summerland, B.C.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- high
- Firmness
- firm
The sweetest cherry isn't necessarily the biggest.
instrumental study · Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Summerland, British Columbia, Canada · 1998, 1999
Read the evidence
The CFIA comparison table reports soluble solid concentration of 23.0%, 21.0% and 18.0% for 13S2009 (Staccato), Sweetheart and Lapins respectively. Average fruit weights were 11.2 g, 11.8 g and 13.5 g in that same cultivar order; the weight row records 50 fruits per cultivar.
- Fruit tested
- Fruit from trial trees on Colt rootstock; a common harvest-maturity standard and postharvest interval are not stated.
- Varieties compared
- 13S2009, Sweetheart, Lapins
- Use studied
- Understanding cultivar differences in two reported measurements; not a sweetness target or consumer-preference ranking.
How to spot it
- Skin
- Light mahogany to mahogany
- Flesh
- pink, red
- Shape
- heart
- Size
- large
Harvest & storage
- Harvest
- Ripening
Origin & family
Where Lapins began
Recorded origin
Summerland, B.C.
Canada
- Institution
- PARC
Lapins’s family
7 varieties · 6 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Lapins
Summerland, B.C., Canada
Photo: DrThneed · CC BY 4.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
- weight
- 9.4 g · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- flesh colour
- pink, red · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- firmness
- medium to firm · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- size
- large · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- shape
- heart · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- ripeness cue
- The skin is mahogany-coloured at maturity. · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- sweetness
- high · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- texture
- firm · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- season timing
- late · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
descriptor observations
- trait
- skin color
- value
- dark red
- context
- BC Cherry Association cultivar comparison
- source url
- www.bccherry.com ↗
- trait
- shape
- value
- flat round / round heart
- context
- BC Cherry Association cultivar comparison
- source url
- www.bccherry.com ↗
- trait
- appearance
- value
- large, round heart shape, dark red, mahogany at maturity, red flesh
- context
- WSU cultivar descriptors; appearance is not unique enough for visual cultivar identification.
- source url
- treefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- trait
- pollination class
- value
- self-fertile (S1S4)
- context
- WSU cultivar descriptor; S-allele notation retained without reconciling conflicts among sources.
- source url
- treefruit.wsu.edu ↗