Excellent culinary cherry, recommended for pies and all other cookery. Very dark red-black skin. Dark red flesh and juice. Ripens late, after Montmorency.

Distinctive small roundish tree with drooping branches. Brown-rot resistant.

Despite the name we know it by, it is thought to have originated on the European mainland, eventually finding its way to England and then North America. Z4/5. (3–6' bare-root trees)