Our Variety Assessment

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

Napoleon suits gardens and orchards seeking a traditional bicoloured cherry with firm, flavourful flesh. Its large pale-yellow fruit, strongly flushed red, is crisp, juicy and well balanced between sweetness and acidity, suitable for fresh eating or cooking. We recommend it to heritage-fruit enthusiasts. A compatible pollinator and a sunny position are required for full ripening.

Napoleon

Price range: 26,50 € through 64,50 €

Napoleon Bigarreau is a traditional white cherry, with an excellent flavour and appearance.

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: 13971 Category: Cherry trees

Description

Napoleon is a well-known traditional large white cherry, and a good example of a “bigarreau” or firm-fleshed variety. The flavour is sweet/sharp, tangier than most of the modern varieties, and of very good quality.

Napoleon is usually classified as a white cherry, on account of its pale golden white flesh.

Despite its name, the Napoleon cherry is not French – it originates from Germany where there is a long history of cherry cultivation.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

Old European light-coloured bigarreau cherry, widely distributed under the name Royal Ann in the United States. Exact origin not found, variety already old before its international spread.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

1-3 days