A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus Prunus, and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit).

The cherry fruits of commerce usually are obtained from a limited number of species such
as cultivars of the sweet cherry, Prunus avium. The name 'cherry' also refers to the cherry tree,
and is sometimes applied to almonds and visually similar flowering trees in the genus Prunus, as
in "ornamental cherry", "cherry blossom", etc. Wild cherry may refer to any of the cherry species
growing outside of cultivation, although Prunus avium is often referred to specifically by the name
"wild cherry" in the British Isles.

The list below contains many Prunus species that bear the common name cherry,
but they are not necessarily members of the subgenus Cerasus, or bear edible fruit.
For a complete list of species, see Prunus. Some common names listed here have
historically been used for more than one species, e.g. "rock cherry" is used as an
alternative common name for both P. prostrata and P. mahaleb and "wild cherry" is
used for several species.

Prunus apetala (Siebold & Zucc.) Franch. & Sav. - clove cherry

Prunus avium (L.) L. - sweet cherry, wild cherry, mazzard or gean

Prunus campanulata Maxim. - Taiwan cherry, Formosan cherry or bell-

flowered cherry

Prunus canescens Bois. - grey-leaf cherry

Prunus caroliniana Aiton - Carolina laurel cherry or laurel cherry

Prunus cerasoides D. Don. - wild Himalayan cherry

Prunus cerasus L. - sour cherry

Prunus cistena Koehne - purple-leaf sand cherry

Prunus cornuta (Wall. ex Royle) Steud. - Himalayan bird cherry

Prunus cuthbertii Small - Cuthbert cherry

Prunus cyclamina Koehne - cyclamen cherry or Chinese flowering cherry

Prunus dawyckensis Sealy - Dawyck cherry

Prunus dielsiana C.K. Schneid. - tailed-leaf cherry

Prunus emarginata (Douglas ex Hook.) Walp. - Oregon cherry or bitter cherry

Prunus eminens Beck - German: mittlere Weichsel (semisour cherry)

 Prunus fruticosa Pall. - European dwarf cherry, dwarf cherry, Mongolian cherry
or steppe cherry

Prunus gondouinii (Poit. & Turpin) Rehder - duke cherry

Prunus grayana Maxim. - Japanese bird cherry or Gray's bird cherry

Prunus humilis Bunge - Chinese plum-cherry or humble bush cherry

Prunus ilicifolia (Nutt. ex Hook. & Arn.) Walp. - hollyleaf cherry, evergreen
cherry, holly-leaved cherry or islay

Prunus incisa Thunb. - Fuji cherry

Prunus jamasakura Siebold ex Koidz. - Japanese mountain cherry or

Japanese hill cherry

Prunus japonica Thunb. - Korean cherry

Prunus laurocerasus L. - cherry laurel

Prunus lyonii (Eastw.) Sarg. - Catalina Island cherry

Prunus maackii Rupr. - Manchurian cherry or Amur chokecherry

Prunus mahaleb L. - Saint Lucie cherry, rock cherry, perfumed cherry or

mahaleb cherry

Prunus maximowiczii Rupr. - Miyama cherry or Korean cherry

Prunus mume (Siebold & Zucc.) - Chinese plum or Japanese apricot

Prunus myrtifolia (L.) Urb. - West Indian cherry

Prunus nepaulensis (Ser.) Steud. - Nepal bird cherry

Prunus nipponica Matsum. - Takane cherry, peak cherry or Japanese alpine

cherry

Prunus occidentalis Sw. - western cherry laurel

Prunus padus L. - bird cherry or European bird cherry

Prunus pensylvanica L.f. - pin cherry, fire cherry, or wild red cherry

Prunus pleuradenia Griseb. - Antilles cherry

 Prunus prostrata Labill. - mountain cherry, rock cherry, spreading cherry or
prostrate cherry

Prunus pseudocerasus Lindl. - Chinese sour cherry or false cherry

Prunus pumila L. - sand cherry

Prunus rufa Wall ex Hook.f. - Himalayan cherry

Prunus salicifolia Kunth. - capulin, Singapore cherry or tropic cherry

Prunus sargentii Rehder - Sargent's cherry

Prunus serotina Ehrh. - black cherry, wild cherry

Prunus serrula Franch. - paperbark cherry, birch bark cherry or Tibetan cherry

Prunus serrulata Lindl. - Japanese cherry, hill cherry, Oriental cherry or East
Asian cherry

Prunus speciosa (Koidz.) Ingram - Oshima cherry

Prunus ssiori Schmidt- Hokkaido bird cherry

Prunus stipulacea Maxim.

Prunus subhirtella Miq. - Higan cherry or spring cherry

Prunus takesimensis Nakai - Takeshima flowering cherry

Prunus tomentosa Thunb. - Nanking cherry, Manchu cherry, downy cherry,

Shanghai cherry, Ando cherry, mountain cherry, Chinese dwarf cherry, Chinese
bush cherry

Prunus verecunda (Koidz.) Koehne - Korean mountain cherry

Prunus virginiana L. - chokecherry

Prunus x yedoensis Matsum. - Yoshino cherry or Tokyo cherry