Starlings’ assorted selection.
All of these were planted by birds. The ones on the left are the size of decent commercial varieties, just richer in flavour and will get propagated. The ones on the right, both pale and red are translucent. In sunlight, they look like garnets and you can actually see the pits. Some of the smaller red and dark ones are nothing you’d choose to eat twice, but it’s fun to see and taste what the birds dragged in. There are plenty of huge heirloom cherry trees in the region both in villages and lining the roads. I guess the small stuff comes from the oak and beech forests about 3km away and those trees also grow like crazy. Some that we’ve taken out in late winter had fruit the size of dried peas.