Our Variety Assessment

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

Regina suits gardens and orchards wishing to extend the season with a high-quality late cherry. Its large, very dark red fruit is firm, crisp, flavoursome, resistant to cracking and keeps well after picking. We recommend it to growers wanting durable dessert cherries. A compatible pollinator is required, and the tree’s natural cropping level can be moderate.

Regina

Price range: 26,50 € through 64,50 €

Regina is a new late-season sweet black cherry, with a good flavour and resistance to splitting.

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Dispatch generally takes place from late November to February, depending on the weather and the progress of lifting the trees.

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: 4408 Category: Cherry trees

Description

Regina is a modern late-season black dessert cherry, ripening in mid-to-late July.

Although usually classified as a black cherry, in practice the skin colour is more often very dark red. The flesh is firm, dark red, with an excellent flavour.

Regina has quickly proved popular with both commercial growers and gardeners alike, on account of its good balanced flavour, large size cherries, and resistance to fruit-cracking. It is a useful alternative to Kordia, and is one of the best dessert cherry varieties for northern climates.

Variety characteristics

Variety origin

German variety bred at the Esteburg fruit station in Jork, from the cross Schneiders späte Knorpel x Rube, cross 57/201, released as a commercial variety from 1977 or 1981 depending on sources.

Origin

Period of origin

USDA zone

Flowering

Harvest period

Eating / keeping period

Use

Sweetness / acidity

Disease resistance

Self-fertility

Pollinator value

Ploidy

Origin and identity

Parentage

Schneiders späte Knorpel x Rube

Synonyms

Regina, Regina™

Growth and adaptation

Vigour and habit

Strong vigour, semi-upright to spreading habit depending on sources, productivity dependent on good pollination and a suitable rootstock

Pollination and fertility

Alleles

S1S3

Pollination

Compatible pollinating varieties

For reliable fruit set, plant at least one variety with a compatible flowering period nearby. Flowering period: 5 - very late.

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Napoleon View this variety

Blanche d’Harcigny View this variety

Gros Bigarreau de la Groise View this variety

Kordia View this variety

Sunburst View this variety

Harvest calendar

Extend your harvest season

Discover varieties from the same category harvested just before, at the same time or just after.

About 15 days earlier

5 au 15 juin

Blanc Nez View this variety

Rainier View this variety

At the same time

25 au 30 juin

Kordia View this variety

Blanche de Wavrans sur l’Aa View this variety

About 15 days later

June 1-15

Burlat View this variety

Early Rivers View this variety

Summit View this variety

Additional variety information for Regina is provided in partnership with Orange Pippin.