Our Variety Assessment

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

Lapins is particularly suited to gardens where only one cherry tree can be planted. Self-fertile and highly productive, it bears large dark-red fruit with juicy, mild and lightly tangy flesh. We recommend it for reliable cropping and straightforward pollination. Its flavour is relatively gentle and may appeal less to growers seeking a strongly aromatic or characterful cherry.

Lapins

Price range: 26,50 € through 64,50 €

An excellent modern sweet cherry. Easy to grow, with heavy crops of good-flavoured cherries.

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

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

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: 4405 Category: Cherry trees

Description

Lapins is a large dark red juicy cherry with a mild sweet/sharp flavour, and will appeal to those who like cherries but prefer a milder flavour.

Lapins is self-fertile and can be considered an improved Stella (which is one of its parents). It is well-regarded by commercial growers because it crops reliably and the fruit is large and of good quality.

It is also an excellent pollinator of many other sweet cherry varieties.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Canadian variety bred at Summerland, British Columbia, by K. O. Lapins and W. D. Lane, from the cross Van x Stella made in 1965, selected in 1971 and released in 1984.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

1-3 days