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.

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

1-3 days