Mazzard

Wild Cherry Rootstock (Prunus avium), also known as Mazzard cherry, is a vigorous rootstock traditionally used for grafting sweet cherry varieties.

It produces strong, well-anchored and long-lived cherry trees, making it particularly suitable for traditional orchards, standard trees and lower-density planting systems where a large adult tree is desired.

Compared with dwarfing cherry rootstocks such as Gisela types, wild cherry gives much greater vigour and usually delays cropping slightly, but provides excellent tree structure and durability over time.

This rootstock performs best in deep, fertile and well-drained soils. It is less suitable for very wet, compacted or poorly drained ground.