Kordia Cherry Trees

Prunus Kordia - Mid Season

Kordia Cherry trees, called Attika in the USA, are popular with pick your own growers for their big crops of high quality fruit.
They're called black cherries, but they're really a very dark purple-red colour.
They're sweet, juicy and a good bit larger than most other cherries.

Browse our range of cherry trees or see the full variety of fruit trees.

Features

• Poorly Self fertile.
• Pollination Group E.
• Big fruit - about 9g each.
• Very nice cropper.
• Disease resistant.
• Harvest in Early July.

Growing Kordia Cherry Trees:

Rich soil is important - dig in plenty of good manure and compost before planting.
Soil drainage must be good.
The more sun your trees get the better your crops will be.
Cherry Trees are targets for birds, so netting them is a very good idea.
Only prune cherry trees in Summer.

Pollination Partners for Kordia Cherries:
Your trees must be pollinated to make really good crops.
Morello, Stella, Sunburst and Lapins Cherokee are all good pollination partners.

History & Trivia

We have two somewhat conflicting versions for the origin of this bigarreau-type cherry tree, which agree about it being Czech.

One story goes that it was discovered by chance in 1963 near Těchlovice and then trialled at the Research and Breeding Institute of Pomology, RBIP, in Holovousy.

The other says it was originally bred at RBIP in 1981.