Rainier cherry

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Rainier is a cultivar of cherry. The Rainier was created in 1952 at Washington State University by Harold Fogle, as a cross between the Bing and Van cultivars.

Rainiers are sweet cherries with creamy-yellow flesh. The cherries are very sensitive to temperature, wind, and rain. About 1/3 of a Rainier cherry orchard's crop is eaten by birds.

Rainiers are considered the "cream of the crop", selling for $5 dollars a pound or more in the USA, and as much as a dollar a piece in Japan.

[edit] References

• "Rainier cherries are the peak of the crop" by Hsiao-Ching Chou, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 23, 2001, retrieved June 26, 2006

• "If it's July, it must be time for those golden Rainier cherries" by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, The Christian Science Monitor, July 6, 2005, retrieved August 6, 2006