Preferred common name: Wild Cherry
Other common names: gean, bird cherry, Cheshire merry tree, crab cherry, hagberry, mazzard, merry tree, Suffolk merries, sweet cherry
Our Royal Horticultural Society Wild Cherry (Prunus avium) hedge is a native deciduous cherry species and a hedgerow favourite. In autumn, the shiny green hedge leaves turn a beautiful orange, pink or red before falling. The pure white flowers are produced in early spring at the same time as the new leaves. Wild cherry bark is smooth purplish-brown with prominent horizontal grey-brown lenticels on young trees, becoming thick dark blackish-brown and fissured on old trees. It can grow in any normal fertile soil, although it prefers none acid rich soils and likes the sun.
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