Bing Sweet Cherry Tree

Bing is the sweet cherry that defined what a cherry should taste like. Originating in Salem, Oregon around 1875, it became America’s benchmark sweet cherry variety — and over 150 years later, it still sets the standard. Huge, glossy, deep red to nearly-black fruit with firm, intensely sweet, juicy flesh that’s extraordinary straight off the tree. For home growers in Zones 5–8, Bing is the cherry most people picture when they imagine growing their own.

The Cherry That Sets the Standard

Bing’s combination of size, color, and flavor is simply hard to beat. The fruit is large and uniformly shaped with a beautiful deep red to mahogany skin and firm, dense flesh packed with rich, sweet cherry flavor. There’s very little tartness — just pure, concentrated sweetness that makes these cherries as good for fresh snacking as they are for baking, preserving, and making homemade cherry juice. They ripen in July and produce abundant, uniform crops that make harvest time genuinely rewarding.

A Heritage Variety With Staying Power

Bing has been grown and celebrated for over 150 years — not because it’s trendy, but because it consistently delivers one of the finest fresh-eating experiences of any fruit tree you can grow at home. It remains the dominant commercial sweet cherry variety in the Pacific Northwest, where standards for cherry quality are among the highest in the world. That proven performance carries directly into the home orchard.

Why Growers Choose Bing

• America’s most iconic sweet cherry — the variety that set the standard for cherry flavor
• Huge, deep red to nearly-black fruit — beautiful, uniform, and stunning at harvest
• Intensely sweet, firm flesh — exceptional for fresh eating, baking, and preserving
• 150+ years of proven performance — a heritage variety trusted by generations of growers
• Abundant, uniform crops — consistent yields of high-quality fruit each July

Note: Will not cross-pollinate with Emperor Francis, Lambert, or Napoleon/Royal Ann.