Sweet cherryvariety
Skeena
A Canadian sweet cherry widely grown commercially.
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Origin · Summerland, B.C.
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- high
- Firmness
- firmvery firm
- Bite
- crisp
How to spot it
- Skin
- Light mahogany to mahogany
- Flesh
- red
- Shape
- round, kidney
- Size
- very large
Harvest & storage
- Harvest
Origin & family
Where Skeena began
Recorded origin
Summerland, B.C.
Canada
- Institution
- PARC
Skeena’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Skeena
Summerland, B.C., Canada
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Field notes
Original source notes
- weight
- 11.9 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
- round, kidney · 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 to black
- context
- BC Cherry Association cultivar comparison
- source url
- www.bccherry.com ↗
- trait
- shape
- value
- kidney
- context
- BC Cherry Association cultivar comparison
- source url
- www.bccherry.com ↗
- trait
- appearance
- value
- very large size, round to kidney shape, dark red to nearly black, dark 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 ↗