English cherry tree IN Cambridge
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Geoffrey Robinson / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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3888 x 2592 px | 32.9 x 21.9 cm | 13 x 8.6 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
10 April 2010Location:
Cambridge England UKMore information:
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Families are being urged to help save the English cherry from extinction by tracking down the oldest fruit trees in Britain. Traditional varieties of British cherries enjoyed by generations are in danger of being wiped out, according to conservationists. Cherry trees once covered tens of thousands of acres across the UK but over the past 50 years Britain has lost a massive 90 per cent of its orchards. Delicious homegrown cherries used to be a common sight in greengrocers but now imports account for nearly 95 per cent of the fruit sold in the shops. Experts claim a demand for year-round summer fruit means many shoppers have never tasted British cherries and are instead fobbed off with bland imports. Now the Woodland Trust's Ancient Tree Hunt and CherryAid want people to find Britain's oldest and most magnificent cherry trees so they can be recorded and protected.