Regina
Regina is a late sweet cherry grown in the Pacific Northwest, with mahogany to dark mahogany skin when ripe.
Origin · Jork
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- high
- Firmness
- firmvery firm
- Bite
- crisp
When a grower identifies Regina, ask about picking maturity as well as color. A dark cherry can still need more time on the tree, and waiting after purchase won't make up for it.
extension guidance · Pacific Northwest, United States; Oregon, Washington and Idaho extension publication.
Read the evidence
The 2007 Pacific Northwest extension account describes ripe Regina as darker than many other cherries and recommends delaying harvest until total soluble solids reach 20–22 percent for peak flavor. That is cultivar-specific regional guidance, rather than a measured consumer-liking threshold demonstrated in this booklet.
- Fruit tested
- Fresh-market sweet cherries; exact crop maturity and storage history of any underlying tasting samples are not supplied.
- Varieties compared
- Regina
- Use studied
- Understanding cultivar-specific eating and handling qualities.
- Published
- 2007
How to spot it
- Skin
- Mahogany to dark mahogany
- Flesh
- red
- Shape
- heart
- Size
- very large
Harvest & storage
- Harvest
Origin & family
Where Regina began
Recorded origin
Jork
Germany
- Institution
- Esteburg-Fruit Research Station, Jork, Germany
Regina’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
Regina
Jork, Germany
Photo: Superbass · CC BY-SA 4.0
Regina → ArekoParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
- weight
- 8.6 g · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- flesh colour
- red · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- firmness
- firm · United Kingdomnationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- size
- very large · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- shape
- heart · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- sweetness
- high · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- firmness
- very firm · Washingtontreefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- texture
- crisp · 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
- heart, square shouldered
- context
- BC Cherry Association cultivar comparison
- source url
- www.bccherry.com ↗
- trait
- firmness
- value
- firm
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- flesh color
- value
- Dark Red
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- fruit weight reported
- value
- 8.60 g
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- stalk length reported
- value
- 49.98 mm
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- skin color
- value
- brown red
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- pistil shape
- value
- depressed
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- juice color
- value
- red
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- appearance
- value
- very large, square shouldered heart shape, dark red to black, flesh one shade lighter than skin
- context
- WSU cultivar descriptors; appearance is not unique enough for visual cultivar identification.
- source url
- treefruit.wsu.edu ↗
- trait
- pollination class
- value
- II (S1S3)
- context
- WSU cultivar descriptor; S-allele notation retained without reconciling conflicts among sources.
- source url
- treefruit.wsu.edu ↗
Photos
SuperbassCC BY-SA 4.0 Kirschsorte Regina