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The Montmorency cherry is a variety of sour cherry (Prunus cerasus) grown in Europe, Canada, United States, particularly in the Grand Traverse Bay region of Northwest Michigan, Door County, Wisconsin, and parts of Indian Administered Kashmir. Montmorency cherries are part of the lighter-red Amarelle cultivar of sour cherries, rather than the ...
Prunus cerasus (sour cherry, [3] tart cherry, or dwarf cherry) [4] is an Old World species of Prunus in the subgenus Cerasus ().It has two main groups of cultivars: the dark-red Morello cherry and the lighter-red Amarelle cherry.
Harvesting over 90,000 tons of cherries each year, Michigan is the nation's leading producer of tart cherries. The Montmorency cherry is the variety of tart, or sour, cherry most commonly grown in the state. [2] A Hungarian sour cherry cultivar, Balaton, has been commercially produced in Michigan since 1998. [3]
The first recorded experiments attempting to dry Montmorency tart cherries were performed in the late 1970s by professors at Utah State University. After drying the cherries, they were rolled in sugar and then sampled as "snow cherries". [4]
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Western Michigan benefits from the moderating effects of Lake Michigan, where everything from apples, pears, and peaches to sweet and tart cherries flourish. And yes, it also produces a lot of grapes.