Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

Discovered at Lemé in Thiérache, this local sour cherry is noticeably milder and more balanced than Montmorency. Its small vermilion fruit has tender yellow flesh with a light fragrance, particularly good in pies, preserves and fruit spirits. It is an appealing heritage choice for traditional sour-cherry flavour without excessive sharpness. The soft fruit does not store or travel well.

De Leme

Price range: 26,50 € through 42,75 €

De Lemé sour cherry tree, with small soft cherries, sweeter and less acidic than Montmorency, harvested late June to early July.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Cherry rootstock options

Colt – approx. 4.5 m mature height

GiselA 5 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

GiselA 6 – approx. 3.5 m mature height

Mazzard – approx. 8 m mature height

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SKU: 6932 Category: Cherry trees

Description

De Lemé sour cherry tree produces small cherries of the griotte type. Compared with the better-known Montmorency sour cherry, it is less acidic and sweeter than average.

The fruit has the soft flesh typical of sour cherries. It is well suited to traditional uses such as pies, jams and fruit brandies.

Harvest takes place from late June to early July.

Flowering is early to mid-season. De Lemé pollinates well with Early Rivers.

Where spring frost is a concern, the Gisela rootstock can increase the fertility of the tree, producing more flowers and therefore potentially helping compensate for frost losses.

De Lemé was found in Lemé, in the Aisne department, in the Thiérache area, a region shared with the south-east of the Nord department.

We supply De Lemé sour cherry tree bare-root, on several rootstocks and in several tree forms depending on availability.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Regional variety rediscovered at Lemé, in the Thiérache area of Aisne, preserved as part of the fruit heritage of Hauts-de-France. Origin date not found.

Origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

1 week

Use

Cooking