Prunus avium

Prunus avium, commonly called wild cherry, sweet cherry or gean, is a species of cherry, a flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. It is native to western Eurasia and naturalized elsewhere.
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  • Type: Sign
  • Description: species of plant
  • Also known as: “bird cherry”, “gean”, “sweet cherry”, “Vogelkirsche / Prunus avium”, and “wild cherry”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ulmus glabra and Steinbruch Schneiker.

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, the wych elm or Scots elm, has the widest range of the European elm species, from Ireland eastwards to the Ural Mountains, and from the Arctic Circle south to the mountains of the and , where the species reaches its southern limit in Europe; it is also found in Iran. is situated 320 metres southeast of Prunus avium.

Nature reserve
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is a nature reserve.

Stadium
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, formerly Gerry Weber Stadion, is a multi-purpose , located in Halle, North Rhine-Westphalia, in . The capacity of the arena is 12,300 people and it opened in 1993. is situated 1½ km southwest of Prunus avium.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Halle and Werther.

Town
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, officially or Westfalen to distinguish it from the larger , is a town in the German state of , 15 km west of . It belongs to the in the region of Detmold.

Town
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is a town in the in the state of , Germany. It is located near the , approximately 10 km north-west of . is situated 3 km east of Prunus avium.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet, which is situated 5 km northeast of Prunus avium.

Prunus avium

Latitude
52.06907° or 52° 4′ 9″ north
Longitude
8.36711° or 8° 22′ 2″ east
Open location code
9F4C3998+JR
Open­Street­Map ID
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Wiki­data ID
Q165137
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Prunus avium” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Soetkersie”
  • Albanian: “Prunus avium”
  • Arabic: “كرز الطيور”
  • Arabic: “كرز بري”
  • Arabic: “كرز حلو”
  • Arabic: “كريز”
  • Aragonese: “Ceresera”
  • Aragonese: “Ciresera”
  • Aragonese: “Prunus avium”
  • Aragonese: “Zeresera”
  • Aragonese: “Ziresera”
  • Armenian: “կեռասենի”
  • Armenian: “Կեռասենի”
  • Asturian: “Prunus avium”
  • Atikamekw: “Miko Cawemin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Gilas”
  • Basque: “Basagerezi”
  • Basque: “Basagereziondo”
  • Basque: “Prunus avium”
  • Bavarian: “Keasch”
  • Bavarian: “Kersch”
  • Bavarian: “Kirsche”
  • Belarusian: “Вішня птушыная”
  • Belarusian: “Чарэшня лясная”
  • Belarusian: “чарэшня”
  • Belarusian: “Чарэшня”
  • Bosnian: “Trešnja”
  • Bulgarian: “Prunus avium”
  • Bulgarian: “дива череша”
  • Bulgarian: “Дива череша”
  • Burmese: “ချယ်ရီပင်”
  • Catalan: “cerisier des oiseaux”
  • Catalan: “cirerer”
  • Catalan: “Cirerer”
  • Catalan: “Cirerers”
  • Catalan: “Prunus avium”
  • Cebuano: “Prunus avium”
  • Chinese: “欧洲樱桃”
  • Chinese: “欧洲甜樱桃”
  • Chinese: “歐洲甜櫻桃”
  • Chinese: “甜樱桃”
  • Chinese: “甜櫻桃”
  • Corsican: “Prunus avium”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kirez”
  • Croatian: “Divlja trešnja”
  • Croatian: “Prunus avium”
  • Croatian: “trešnja”
  • Croatian: “Trešnja”
  • Czech: “Prunus avium”
  • Czech: “třešeň ptačí”
  • Czech: “Třešeň ptačí”
  • Danish: “Fugle-Kirsebær”
  • Danish: “Fuglekirsebær”
  • Danish: “Kirsebærtræ”
  • Danish: “Prunus avium”
  • Danish: “Sød-Kirsebær”
  • Dutch: “boskriek”
  • Dutch: “Prunus avium”
  • Dutch: “zoete kers”
  • Dutch: “Zoete kers”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كرز حلو”
  • Esperanto: “Cerasus avium”
  • Esperanto: “Cerasus”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉerizarbo”
  • Esperanto: “Prunus avium”
  • Estonian: “Magus kirsipuu”
  • Extremaduran: “Prunus avium”
  • Finnish: “imeläkirsikka”
  • Finnish: “Imeläkirsikka”
  • Finnish: “Linnunkirsikkapuu”
  • Finnish: “Prunus avium”
  • French: “Bigarreau”
  • French: “Bigarreautier”
  • French: “Bigarreaux”
  • French: “Cerisier des bois”
  • French: “Cerisier des oiseaux”
  • French: “Cerisier sauvage”
  • French: “Guigne”
  • French: “Guignier”
  • French: “merisier”
  • French: “Prunus avium”
  • Friulian: “Çariesâr”
  • Friulian: “Çariese”
  • Friulian: “Cesâr”
  • Friulian: “Cjariesâr”
  • Friulian: “Cjariese”
  • Friulian: “Prunus avium”
  • Galician: “cerdeira”
  • Galician: “Cerdeira”
  • Georgian: “ბალი”
  • German: “Cerasus avium”
  • German: “cerisier des oiseaux”
  • German: “Kirsche”
  • German: “Knorpelkirsche”
  • German: “Prunus avium”
  • German: “Speisekirsche”
  • German: “Süss-Kirsche”
  • German: “Süß-Kirsche”
  • German: “Süsskirsche”
  • German: “Vogel-Kirsche”
  • German: “Vogelkirsche”
  • German: “Wildkirsche”
  • Gilaki: “وحشی گیلاس”
  • Greek: “Κερασιά”
  • Hebrew: “דובדבן המתוק”
  • Hungarian: “cseresznyefa”
  • Hungarian: “madárcseresznye”
  • Hungarian: “vadcseresznye”
  • Hungarian: “Vadcseresznye”
  • Icelandic: “Fuglakirsuber”
  • Ido: “Prunus avium”
  • Igbo: “Prunus avium”
  • Indonesian: “Ceri manis”
  • Interlingua: “Prunus avium”
  • Interlingue: “Prunus avium”
  • Irish: “crann silíní fiáin”
  • Irish: “Prunus avium”
  • Irish: “silín fiáin”
  • Irish: “Silín fiáin”
  • Italian: “ciliegio dolce”
  • Italian: “ciliegio”
  • Italian: “Prunus avium”
  • Japanese: “セイヨウミザクラ”
  • Kabardian: “Prunus avium”
  • Kabardian: “Балий”
  • Kabyle: “Arḍlim”
  • Kabyle: “Aṛeḍlim”
  • Kashubian: “Krzesznia”
  • Kazakh: “Moýıl”
  • Kazakh: “Мойыл”
  • Kazakh: “Тәтті шие”
  • Kazakh: “مويىل”
  • Kirghiz: “Гилас”
  • Korean: “양벚나무”
  • Kurdish: “Gelyaz”
  • Latin: “Prunus avium”
  • Latvian: “saldais ķirsis”
  • Latvian: “Saldais ķirsis”
  • Lithuanian: “čerešnė”
  • Lithuanian: “cerisier des oiseaux”
  • Lithuanian: “Prunus avium”
  • Lithuanian: “trešnė”
  • Lithuanian: “Trešnė”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Prunus avium”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Słodka wišnja”
  • Luxembourgish: “Prunus avium”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vullekiischt”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Cireșu”
  • Macedonian: “цреша”
  • Macedonian: “Цреша”
  • Malay: “Ceri manis”
  • Manx: “Prunus avium”
  • Manx: “Shillish”
  • Mazanderani: “آلوکک”
  • Mazanderani: “گیلاس”
  • Mingrelian: “ბული”
  • Neapolitan: “Ceraso”
  • Neapolitan: “Pede ‘e cerase”
  • Neapolitan: “Prunus avium”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “fuglekirsebær”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “morell”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Prunus avium”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “søtkirsebær”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Morell”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prunus avium”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “søtkirsebær”
  • Norwegian: “Morell”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cerièr”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Prunus avium”
  • Ossetian: “Prunus avium”
  • Ossetian: “Гуырдзиаг бал”
  • Persian: “پرونوس آویوم”
  • Persian: “گیلاس خودرو”
  • Persian: “گیلاس شیرین”
  • Persian: “گیلاس وحشی”
  • Picard: “Chéche”
  • Picard: “Chérizhié”
  • Picard: “Chrizhié”
  • Picard: “Ghin·nhe”
  • Picard: “Prunus avium”
  • Piemontese: “Prunus avium”
  • Polish: “Cerasus avium”
  • Polish: “czereśnia dzika”
  • Polish: “czereśnia ptasia”
  • Polish: “czereśnia”
  • Polish: “Prunus avium”
  • Polish: “trześnia”
  • Polish: “wiśnia ptasia”
  • Polish: “Wiśnia ptasia”
  • Portuguese: “Prunus avium”
  • Quechua: “Rinda”
  • Romanian: “Cireş”
  • Romanian: “Cireș”
  • Romanian: “Prunus avium L.”
  • Romanian: “Prunus avium”
  • Russian: “Cerasus avium”
  • Russian: “Prunus avium”
  • Russian: “Вишня птичья”
  • Russian: “Дикая вишня”
  • Russian: “черешня”
  • Russian: “Черешня”
  • Samogitian: “Trešnė”
  • Sardinian: “Cariasa”
  • Scots: “Prunus avium”
  • Serbian: “Дивља трешња”
  • Serbian: “Трешња”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Prunus avium”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Trešnja”
  • Silesian: “Amlara”
  • Silesian: “Třyśńa”
  • Silesian: “Trzyśńa”
  • Slovak: “čerešňa vtáčia”
  • Slovak: “Čerešňa vtáčia”
  • Slovenian: “češnja”
  • Slovenian: “Češnja”
  • Slovenian: “črešnja*”
  • Slovenian: “Prunus avium”
  • Spanish: “Cerasus dulcis”
  • Spanish: “Cerasus duracina”
  • Spanish: “Ceresera”
  • Spanish: “Cerexo”
  • Spanish: “Cereza blanca”
  • Spanish: “Cereza gallega”
  • Spanish: “Cerezas adonas”
  • Spanish: “Cerezas corazon de cabrito”
  • Spanish: “Cerezas corazón de cabrito”
  • Spanish: “Creisal”
  • Spanish: “Druparia avium”
  • Spanish: “Guereciga”
  • Spanish: “Guindo morrino”
  • Spanish: “Prunus avium”
  • Spanish: “Prunus cerasus ι avium”
  • Spanish: “Seresero”
  • Spanish: “Zrisal”
  • Swedish: “bigarrå”
  • Swedish: “cerisier des oiseaux”
  • Swedish: “fågelbär”
  • Swedish: “mörka bigarråer”
  • Swedish: “Prunus avium”
  • Swedish: “sötkörsbär”
  • Swedish: “Sötkörsbär”
  • Tajik: “Гелос”
  • Tatar: “төче чия”
  • Tatar: “Төче чия”
  • Tibetan: “ཁམ་ཤིང་།”
  • Turkish: “Kiraz”
  • Turkish: “Prunus avium”
  • Uighur: “ياۋا گىلاس”
  • Ukrainian: “Prunus avium”
  • Ukrainian: “черешні”
  • Ukrainian: “черешня”
  • Ukrainian: “Черешня”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Prunus avium”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Słódka wišnja”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Třešeń”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Třěšeń”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Zahrodna třešeń”
  • Uzbek: “Gilos”
  • Venetian: “Prunus avium”
  • Venetian: “Saresaro”
  • Vietnamese: “anh đào dại”
  • Vietnamese: “Anh đào dại”
  • Volapük: “Prunus avium”
  • Võro: “Murõlipuu”
  • Walloon: “Prunus avium”
  • Walloon: “Såvadje tchersî”
  • Walloon: “Såvadjes tchersîs”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Prunus avium”
  • Welsh: “Coeden geirios du”
  • Western Armenian: “Կեռասենի”
  • Wu Chinese: “欧洲甜樱桃”
  • Yue Chinese: “歐洲甜櫻桃”
  • “Cireșu”
  • “Murõlipuu”
  • “Prunus avium”
  • “Trešnė”

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