Characteristics
The Ulster cherry is a midseason cultivar. It produces a dark red fruit is firm and large, sometimes measuring more than one inch in width. Its fruit has a strong resistance to cracking brought about by pre-harvest rains, and the trees growing the Ulster cherry have been documented as showing a higher resistance to southwest trunk winter injury, cherry leaf spot and the late spring frosts that can prove fatal to this cultivar. Cracking can be high on some young trees, but the level of cracking declines as the trees mature.
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